do you want to save time
stay out of northern california if you are a graphics pro...they came pouring in from around the world to make their fortunes as web designers and now there are tons of degreed and certified high end pros out there with no work...apparently, everyone in san jose decided en masse not to have e-businesses out of their homes with matching websites after the crash
...though at one time, there were something like 37 millionaires being made each month in silicon valley but that was before the bubble burst leaving all these web designers and graphics professionals scratching their heads
...we had graphics pros from the east coast, the midwest, the south, india, china, japan, england, germany, etc...everywhere you turn in the local coffee shop where the unemployed hang out, you will meet another graphic designer and many are techies who got tired of simply fixing machines and wanted to get creative so you got a generation of engineers who are also graphic designers not to mention the huge fine arts community of starving artists who turned to computer art to try to make a living
and northern california, especially san francisco, is a haven for clothing designers, hair care professionals, interior designers, and graphic designers...in other words, it is one of the main careers of the very successful gay community in the city that invented multimedia in the section known as multimedia gulch
unless you know you are the best in the field, why come to an area already flooded with too many designers with no work
now southern california is the advertising capital and movie capital of the west coast and there are many times more people in southern california so there are more jobs and there are not the flood of thousands of web and graphics designers left over from the dot.com revolution in the southland
northern california is prettier than southern california and san francisco is a great place to live so you would have to choose in quality of life which northern california gives (except for the silicon valley) or the big bucks that a graphics pro can make in LA
for 3D, the west is the best and as you know for 2D graphic design, new york is the place to be...but unless you have a pressing need to come to northern california, stick to where the money is (LA and NY)
ps - sorry for getting off the mac stores topic but i am the procrastinating off topic long winded hatman who is self employed with two businesses on the road but never far from a computer online to i can dash into the library, make a post, and dash out and forget to log out like an idiot
[Edited by jefhatfield on 12-18-2001 at 03:18 PM]
