{"id":6260,"date":"2015-03-09T06:19:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:19:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6260"},"modified":"2015-03-09T06:19:28","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T12:19:28","slug":"in-defense-of-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6260","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of the Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/ntietz.com\/2015\/03\/08\/midwest-defense.html\">Nicolas Tietz<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split: one founder and one engineer were in Mountain View, CA; one founder and one engineer were in Ohio; and one engineer was remote. Nearly every month in the first year, I flew out to the Silicon Valley office to work with the engineers out there.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Since then, we have grown to have a technical staff of about 20 people. We are split pretty evenly between the Silicon Valley office and the Ohio office. I spend most of my time in the Ohio office, but I do commute to the Silicon Valley one occasionally.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Nearly every time I go out to California, my coworkers ask me the usual question: &#8220;so, when are you moving to California?&#8221; It seems like for people in the Valley, moving to California is such an obvious choice that it isn&#8217;t even a question of if I&#8217;ll move, but when. However, I truly love the Midwest and that I want to stay here for as long as I can. It&#8217;s not for everyone, but it is for me and maybe it is for you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolas Tietz: As an undergraduate, I always imagined that I would someday move to the SF Bay Area to live in the heart of the software industry. With this in mind, in my final semester at Kent State, I joined a Silicon Valley startup as their third engineer1. The staff at that time was split: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6261,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6260\/revisions\/6261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}