02-20-2017, 10:28 PM
Yeah, none of my friends in the valley drive to work. A friend of mine takes the Apple bus from SF to Cupertino every day (they run every half hour from 6 AM on, return as late as 10 PM) and uses uber for everything else except trips outside the city. He's currently trying to convince his wife that it's not worth keeping their car because they use it less than once a month.
I've been lucky as far as walk/bus/bike options here, but I'm not a winter biker and with current employment options I am really tempted to buy a car.
Also, the math I did for myself (single guy, 10+ years in electronics) the salaries were enough for me to afford to rent in Silicon Valley and still make my mortgage payments here. (I was counting on having to spend some time dealing with Waterloo's license system before I could take in rent.) I haven't seen any salaries in KW or the GTA that would allow me to do that... although some of the GTA companies make the commute tempting.
I know I'm mixing threads here, but the thing that gets me is that the salary for a new grad given in the Thalmic CEO's Medium post ($60k?) isn't any higher than CS grads were getting 15 years ago.
I've been lucky as far as walk/bus/bike options here, but I'm not a winter biker and with current employment options I am really tempted to buy a car.
Also, the math I did for myself (single guy, 10+ years in electronics) the salaries were enough for me to afford to rent in Silicon Valley and still make my mortgage payments here. (I was counting on having to spend some time dealing with Waterloo's license system before I could take in rent.) I haven't seen any salaries in KW or the GTA that would allow me to do that... although some of the GTA companies make the commute tempting.
I know I'm mixing threads here, but the thing that gets me is that the salary for a new grad given in the Thalmic CEO's Medium post ($60k?) isn't any higher than CS grads were getting 15 years ago.