<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ynniv</author><text>If we&amp;#x27;re going to be anecdotal, I moved to Atlanta from Boston. I now have lower expenses, a higher salary, the weather is better, cars last twice as long, and people are less abrasive. Every time I check there are more startups, more new buildings, more people, more opportunities...&lt;p&gt;Just my experience after having moved here.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fweespeech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I&amp;#x27;d consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs.&lt;p&gt;That includes those fortune 500 companies (a couple of whom had internal recruiters bail when I mentioned my current salary + the COLA number). Cutting your real estate costs by $12-15k goes a long way but it doesn&amp;#x27;t magically cover $40k+ paycuts. It is good for employers (for instance, one guy was willing to disclose &amp;quot;I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.&amp;quot;) but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. (i.e. above 6 figures outside of SF&amp;#x2F;NYC)&lt;p&gt;It is anecdotal, just my experience after looking to move there.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe&amp;#x27;s, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot of small satellite consulting firms. Cost of housing is much lower, though traffic is bad as well. It&amp;#x27;s a nice green city, but Venture funding is low, so it depends on your ambitions.</text></item><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbre.com&amp;#x2F;research-and-reports&amp;#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbre.com&amp;#x2F;research-and-reports&amp;#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Bay Area
  Seattle
  New York
  Washington DC
  Atlanta
  Toronto
  Raleigh
  Austin
  Boston&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>joseph</author><text>I just moved to Atlanta from Seattle and got a 25% raise in the process. In fact I had two similar offers to choose from.</text><parent_chain><item><author>fweespeech</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d be very cautious about Atlanta. Outside of Google, many of the companies there are wanting to pay salaries I&amp;#x27;d consider substantially below market (even including COLA) compared to the other hubs.&lt;p&gt;That includes those fortune 500 companies (a couple of whom had internal recruiters bail when I mentioned my current salary + the COLA number). Cutting your real estate costs by $12-15k goes a long way but it doesn&amp;#x27;t magically cover $40k+ paycuts. It is good for employers (for instance, one guy was willing to disclose &amp;quot;I got two guys with Master degrees for $20k less than what you wanted.&amp;quot;) but not so good for employees on the upper end of the pay scale. (i.e. above 6 figures outside of SF&amp;#x2F;NYC)&lt;p&gt;It is anecdotal, just my experience after looking to move there.</text></item><item><author>dzink</author><text>Atlanta is the center of tech ambitions for the southeast. It has a lot of Fortune 500 company headquarters - Turner Broadcasting with 18+ major online brands, Home Depot, Lowe&amp;#x27;s, etc. Yahoo and Google had offices. There are also a lot of small satellite consulting firms. Cost of housing is much lower, though traffic is bad as well. It&amp;#x27;s a nice green city, but Venture funding is low, so it depends on your ambitions.</text></item><item><author>ynniv</author><text>I get that you work with what you have (in this case, a corpus of job postings), but a ranking that places Baltimore in the top three tech hubs fails the sniff test. CBRE has a better list here (email registration wall): &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbre.com&amp;#x2F;research-and-reports&amp;#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talent-2017&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbre.com&amp;#x2F;research-and-reports&amp;#x2F;Scoring-Tech-Talen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m biased in that it places Atlanta unusually high, but overall it is a better, less surprising ranking:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  Bay Area
  Seattle
  New York
  Washington DC
  Atlanta
  Toronto
  Raleigh
  Austin
  Boston&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Higher-paid, faster-growing tech jobs are concentrating in 8 US hubs</title><url>http://www.hiringlab.org/2017/07/25/next-silicon-valley/</url></story>