Re: WWW job sites -- perused last night -- MA happ ening for TW

Subject: Re: WWW job sites -- perused last night -- MA happ ening for TW
From: Rosemarie R Gaglione <rgaglion -at- FLUTE -dot- AIX -dot- CALPOLY -dot- EDU>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 12:47:12 -0700

Three reasons not to live in Boston come to mind immediately: snow,
rotary intersections, and the worst case of double parking I've ever seen!

On Wed, 14 Jun 1995, Mark Boyer wrote:

> While we're discussing the reasons for living and working in the Boston
> area, let's not forget stuff like culture, literacy, the scenic advanatages
> of New England and its shoreline, urban sophistication, and the whole
> business of the northeastern "mindset" (only a few steps less myopic than
> Woody Allen's "Why leave Manhattan." Actually, I'd turn the question around
> by asking, "Why, with the exception perhaps of the west coast and New York
> City, would anyone live and work anywhere other than Boston?"
> -------------
> Original Text
> >From Nancy Paisner <nancy -at- HI -dot- COM>, on 6/14/95 1:53 PM:
> The answer is simple - education. The first high-tech center in the
> country, before most people had even heard of Silicon Valley, was on
> Rte. 128 around Boston, and the reason was MIT, pure and simple. MIT
> is still here, as well as a lot of other good schools. People (like
> myself, I might add) come to the Boston area for school and decide
> it's a nice place to live. MIT graduates decide they like it and set
> up high-tech companies here.

> The 'Taxachusetts' label was applied around 10 years ago and has
> stuck, even though I've read that many states have caught up to and
> surpassed Mass. in that regard. I have no numbers to prove it one way
> or the other, but I think living here is worth my taxes.

> Nancy

> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Nancy Paisner email: nancy -at- hi -dot- com
> Hitachi Computer Products voice: (617) 890-0444
> Waltham, MA. fax: (617) 890-4998
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------


> > Honest to God. I mean, *the* happeningest place for TW's doing
> > computer-industry tech. writing is probably Silicon Valley -- which makes
> > obvious sense. But *Massacheussetts*?
> >
> > No offense intended to Massacheussetians (sp?), but I'm trying to figure
> > out what attracts high-tech industry to this particular state. I was
> > considering a position in NH last year and asked for feedback; a couple
> of
> > people referred to Mass. as "Taxacheussetts," apparently because of
> > high...income tax rates? Sales tax rates?
> >
> > I'm guessing industries fare better, taxation-wise, than individuals in
> > Mass. Or maybe it's something completely unrelated, perhaps just a
> > inexplicable trend (one company settles or relocates there, others get
> > ideas, snowball effect). Anyone?
> >
> > For those interested, the servers I was perusing are:
> >
> > The Monster Board: http://www.monster.com (graphical Websurfers may want
> > to turn off auto-downloading off inline graphics for this one)
> >
> > E-Span: http://www.espan.com (I think)
> >
> > These are two of the better-known ones, but they're just the *tip of the
> > iceberg* with respect to Web-based job-related sites. A search of the
> > well-known Lycos Web databse for "job" would, I think, prove interesting
> > indeed.
> >
> >
> > PatO'
> > titanide -at- micro -dot- org


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