tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post3549198842439260279..comments2024-02-12T23:56:11.051-05:00Comments on Daytonology: Technocratic Affluence in Greene CountyJeffereyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294969786619943530noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post-17128904446417106942009-05-15T06:03:00.000-04:002009-05-15T06:03:00.000-04:00Thanks Jefffery and thanks to thedonald - nice ana...Thanks Jefffery and thanks to thedonald - nice analysis.Greg Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17397460620900925314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post-80751437862178055512009-05-13T21:53:00.000-04:002009-05-13T21:53:00.000-04:00Yellow Springs is favored by some base personnel f...Yellow Springs is favored by some base personnel for its trendiness and cool factor. Don't get me started on the abject hypocrisy of someone wired into sucking down easy DoD income posturing like they're living a "Mother Earth News" lifestyle. YS is basically a Dayton suburb with a unique flavor. The exorbitant real estate values there point to yuppification. <br /><br />>> I have some anecdotal evidence the non-defense IT people do migrate to defense contractors. <br /><br />I have tried this in the past - I had a clearance in the 80s but it lapsed when I changed jobs. I never got anywhere. I have found out that defense contractors up there stage "cattle calls" where the priority is on hiring people with current clearances - it costs $$$ for a contractor to fund a clearance investigation. It's possible that occasionally new people enter that system, but Dayton is so glutted with desperate IT people that all that hiring parties need to do is wait it out and they can find someone with perfect credentials, cheap."TheDonald"noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post-74812180055952014442009-05-13T21:35:00.000-04:002009-05-13T21:35:00.000-04:00I should also say, its interesting to see Yellow S...I should also say, its interesting to see Yellow Springs show up here in both the government worker and techie maps. You wouldnt think of the place as hipper Beavercreek, but it looks like defense money is helping out there too, huh?Jeffereyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294969786619943530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post-58014892147623040852009-05-13T21:33:00.000-04:002009-05-13T21:33:00.000-04:00Yeah, there is a dual economy perhaps, but I have ...Yeah, there is a dual economy perhaps, but I have some anecdotal evidence the non-defense IT people do migrate to defense contractors. <br /><br />This is going to be interesting when BRAC hits...the 2K plus new defesne workers + the contractor support.Jeffereyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01294969786619943530noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7572205562498024454.post-20420018255745247052009-05-13T13:03:00.000-04:002009-05-13T13:03:00.000-04:00I've said this before - the prosperity created by ...I've said this before - the prosperity created by WPAFB is largely "side by side" with and independent of the depressed, formerly manufacturing based Dayton economy. <br /><br />There are some "vectors" by which base money infuses the local economy - construction, restaurants and services - IE, McJobs of different levels - but the base does little to energize the region with value added economic activity. Anything that the base "needs" in a high tech sense is highly specific to DoD procurement. <br /><br />I've socialized with "base technocrats" - engineers and managers whose jobs or companies are grafted onto the side of the base. By and large these people are vapidly oblivious in your usual middle class way to the economic challenges faced by a non-anointed non clearance holder in the local economy. <br /><br />Consider also that many of the highest paid people who are attached to the base are not locals - they came here in the service, were detached and stayed. So they don't have much of a local connection beyond considering that this is yet another relocation of many in their careers. They may as well be anywhere, not just Dayton."TheDonald"noreply@blogger.com