Tech workers often don’t make enough money for it to make sense to live in the city long term unless it’s really important to them. If they have kids, this goes double. A lot of people commute from upstate and that is a hellish commute, even by train.

NYC has a housing crisis and MTA is frankly quite shit compared to most public transportation in the world. They have a lot of lines into Manhatten, which is good for NYT, but no circumferential traffic, and delays are frequent. MTA is massively underfunded.

Most tech workers probably live in the suburbs and the public transit from the burbs into the city both suck and are insanely expensive.

So because they have high salaries they need to work in an office? I'm not seeing how that's related.

Dude. Have you ever ridden the NY subway? It sucks.

And the bigger issue is the amount of time taken out of the day by a commute when it's not needed for the vast majority of tech workers.

I feel guilty. Without a commute I haven't read this ever growing stack of New Yorkers and The Atlantic. I'm joking, but serious. Car commute is terrible. When you commute on half decent public transit, you can do shit and was kind of a part of my day to day rhythm. On good days it was almost meditative.

But seriously, who the fuck are these trolls suggesting real tech workers don't live in NYC. Yeah, the dream is actually living in Jersey City said no one that has money in NYC