We're ahead, that's great. But there's a whole lot of people who thought they were going to keep doing the same job for another decade or so, and that's not happening. Many of the new jobs are in the knowledge industries and many of them are in start-ups. There are a number of reasons that are cited. One of them is that Boston is a very discouraging environment for start-up small companies.
Silicon Valley is a highly encouraging environment for start-ups.
A really good start-up environment requires lots of cooperation, as well as competition. So they're forced into a collaborative situation, and it's a fairly classic ecological kind of dense, rich set of relationships they have, with diversity and rapid change and all those cool things. Which turns out to be also much better as a job environment for people. As they say in Silicon Valley, you can change jobs without changing your parking lot. You can just move down two floors in the same building with a completely different company and probably a different platform and a different industry, but you're still working and still driving the same distance from your house.