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Re: WWW job sites -- perused last night -- MA happening for TW's!
Subject:Re: WWW job sites -- perused last night -- MA happening for TW's! From:Nancy Paisner <nancy -at- HI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 14 Jun 1995 13:53:26 EDT
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.
> 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)
> 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.
