We’re a tech hub! No, we’re just wannabes! We’re a tech hub, really! We are! We are!!
I mean, aren’t we?
It does seem as if there's a continual question about metro Atlanta's status as a hot hub of millennial-powered, Georgia Tech cultivated technology. And trotted out today, from InfoWorld, another in a series of sometimes encouraging but often-conflicting lists of the nation's best spots for growth and technology.
On one of those perennial Top Ten lists, Atlanta places fourth, says InfoWorld. The online magazine sums it up thusly:
“With great salary potential, steady employment levels and a slow-growing, affordable housing market, Atlanta’s a great choice for tech professionals.”
According to InfoWorld, Atlanta has 3.0 tech jobs for every 1,000 positions. Moreover, Atlanta's average housing price is the very-affordable-to-well-paid-engineers amount of $276,650.
And the average tech salary in Atlanta is $91,995. (That is, as it happens, slightly higher than Denver’s average tech salary, and InfoWorld placed Denver at number one. Go figure.)
So today's word is, yes. We are indeed one of the nation's premier tech hubs.
The top ten, as per InfoWorld:
— Denver
— Framingham, Ma.
— Oakland
— Atlanta
— Boston
— Austin
— Santa Ana, Cal.
— Baltimore
— Durham, N.C.
— Boulder, Co.
Encouraging? Helpful? Valid? (Baltimore? Really?). Of course, we’ll likely get another survey next week with a different take.
Maybe it’s just some kind of insecurity. After all, there sure are a lot of techies here, doing all sorts of Big Data stuff and mobile apps and cyber-security, not to mention fin-tech.
But are there enough for us to claim hub-hood?
Seems like it’s a question we’ll keep asking until we don’t even bother on account of we have become so undeniably hubalicious.
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