‘The Bay Area is broken’: startups look to Portland, Boise – Choose Montana!

Silicon Valley may be the world’s tech paradise, but it’s a hiring nightmare for many local startups now forced to venture from Portland to Boise in search of talent.

Enormous salary expectations _ driven by the Bay Area’s soaring cost of living and competition from well-paying giants such as Google and Facebook _ have made it too expensive for a growing number of local startups to recruit employees here. Others say the workers they do have want to leave, frustrated by their inability to buy a home as the region grapples with a chronic housing shortage.

http://www.oregonlive.com/silicon-forest/index.ssf/2018/04/the_bay_area_is_broken_startup.html

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