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Man, you could really pick up a lot of channels with that thing.

Also, a sentry station and sniper's nest for cannibal anarchy. Sit in the dish and pick 'em off as they appear on the horizon and hilltops. A nice concrete bunker/fallout shelter and it would be sweet.

unstoppable says

screw paying one million for a crap ranch house in palo alto, buy this instead!

thats why many employers are expanding elsewhere.. they arent hiring here much.

and why should they...

thomaswong.1986 says

unstoppable says

screw paying one million for a crap ranch house in palo alto, buy this instead!

thats why many employers are expanding elsewhere.. they arent hiring here much.

and why should they...

My Lady is yet another remote worker for a Silicon Valley firm, sweet deal California wages but we still have an Oregon cost of living. They would have to offer her a stupid amount of money for us to even consider moving down there.

unstoppable says

My Lady is yet another remote worker for a Silicon Valley firm, sweet deal California wages but we still have an Oregon cost of living. They would have to offer her a stupid amount of money for us to even consider moving down there.

Yes.. many recent migrants to CA somehow think every SV companyhave all is employees here. they are clueless in seeing the vast number of headcount is remote, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, etc etc. And these states are all to happy to get the jobs inside their borders while Gov Brown keeps ignoring all this..

Lots of my remote coworkers are peach fine, doing great, working for top rated tech companies...

thomaswong.1986 says

Yes.. many recent migrants to CA somehow think every SV companyhave all is employees here. they are clueless in seeing the vast number of headcount is remote, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, Texas, etc etc. And these states are all to happy to get the jobs inside their borders while Gov Brown keeps ignoring all this..

Lots of my remote coworkers are peach fine, doing great, working for top rated tech companies...

Silicon valley still has all the VC money and the executive talent, recently we had a software company move their headquarters south for that reason.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2010/05/jive_software_makes_it_officia.html

Secure Fenced Communication Satellite Site
103 Acres with large building envelope
20,000 Square Foot Structure
Paved Private Road
Infrastructure includes 3 Phase and Fiber Optics

Hell, that seems like a damn good deal to me. The land alone is a mere $14.5 grand an acre. I'd gladly pay three times that for an acre of land nearby where I live.

The "structure" is way bigger than most houses and would probably serve better as a house than most of the shacks going for $300k around here.

The telecommunication cables are a bonus.

If this deal were in Boca Raton, FL, I'd team up with 10 buddies to buy it in a second.

unstoppable says

Silicon valley still has all the VC money and the executive talent, recently we had a software company move their headquarters south for that reason.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/siliconforest/2010/05/jive_software_makes_it_officia.html

30 yr vetern.. what is spoken inside by executives differs from the media. Frankly we had a disconnect since 2002-05. Its been hype since then.

Yes.. many have a HQ in SV... headcount is some 10-15% is local to SV while 85-90% is elsewhere like Intel, Cisco, Seagate, KLA, AMD, and many many more. The number isnt that big in total.. And all are legal Delaware corporations. What does it say ?

Now days as you see even small start ups have regional R&D centers.. its saves and stretches that VC dollar longer.

http://www.sothebysrealty.com/eng/sales/detail/180-l-874-4407333/quintessentially-organic-boerne-tx-78006

I'm sure they would take a $1M for this property. There are nonstop flights from SAT to SFO. I know. I would fly to the Bay Area twice a month as a consultant.

So why do people want to live in Palo Alto?

Sort of easier said than done. Sure- there's other tech jobs outside of SV by far. But at least in my field of tech, a few years ago I did in fact try to get a job out of California in any number of other, supposedly "tech-friendly" cities like Austin, Raleigh, Atlanta, etc.

Guess what? There were maybe a total of 4-5 total jobs in any given city I looked at and on top of that, the pay more or less sucked. Lots of competition for those jobs from all the other smart Californians who had already moved there, sure they would get a job immediately.

On top of that, if you did land a job in one of those places, exactly how long would it take to get another if you lost it? Years? Who knows in a place with far fewer jobs total.

Ceffer says

Man, you could really pick up a lot of channels with that thing.

TimeWarner will still call you biweekly asking if you want to purchase their service. No way around it.

Dan8267 says

Hell, that seems like a damn good deal to me. The land alone is a mere $14.5 grand an acre. I'd gladly pay three times that for an acre of land nearby where I live.

That's a lot for that type of land. It's usually around 2,000 to 5,000 / acre.

Here you are paying for the satellite dish, reminds me of an old 007 movie.

Dan8267 says

The "structure" is way bigger than most houses and would probably serve better as a house than most of the shacks going for $300k around here.

Imagine the heat at the center of the dish. If you want it cooler just move out to the rooms on the ends. ;)

You would need a few people on rattlesnake patrol for sure.

Re-pointing the dish would be fun the first dozen times.

Maybe it could be rented out for film and music video projects.

edvard2 says

Lots of competition for those jobs from all the other smart Californians who had already moved there, sure they would get a job immediately.

thats how you do it.. transfer internally. second, your hired right out of college.

jvolstad says

So why do people want to live in Palo Alto?

it reminds them of Boston college town.. being next to Stanford. Beyond that there
is no value.

a typical Californian native would rather be hiking surfing diving or what ever getting out on weekends than walking like a hobo down University St. buying a $5 cup of coffee.

i have seen better days..

jvolstad says

So why do people want to live in Palo Alto?

A realtor told them that prices only go up. Honestly, that is the only reason that seems to make sense. Knowing your single panel wood cottage is costing you more in taxes than what the average person pays in mortgage costs must be justified. That only justification is that you are doing it for the appreciation.

rufita11 says

Re-pointing the dish would be fun the first dozen times.

I think it would be fun to point it at the nearest neighbors house, just to screw with their minds.