[GrayTextIsTruth]

>what's hampering Silicon Valley innovation right now is the outrageous cost of living.

I wish a “remote hub” concept would become popular. Where you work remote but need to be close enough to come in once a week or for big meetings. This would allow people to move a little further away and would possibly allow areas right outside the bay to become an extension of Silicon Valley.

[jedberg]

Part of the reason the Valley is so successful is because after work you can pop over to a meetup about your very niche expertise, or meet up for coffee with some old coworkers.

If you only come to the office once a week and otherwise live outside of the valley, that gets a lot harder to do.

I live in the south bay and already feel the pinch, as most of the meetups I'd want to go to are in San Francisco, about an hour's drive away. When I worked in SF, it was no big deal to stick around for a meetup or a drink. Now it's 1/2 a day's outing.

[nine_k]

Are these meetups any useful?

I ignore 99% of such events, and keep communication almost exclusively online. Am I missing much? (I'm an engineer, though, not an entrepreneur.)

[foota]

This would be trivial if we had more effective mass transit

[lotsofpulp]

That would require far more dense housing.

[3fe9a03ccd14ca5]

I love this idea. You work remotely 4 days a week.