Comment by jitler

> Now that negotiating power is gone. They wouldn't go to philips or so because philips doesn't manufacture here anymore.

Remains me of the derelict shithole I live in now.

I meet all sorts of people here that talk about the past residents of the city and the really cool, technology. One post the other day was about someone’s grandpa who was a chemist who pioneered the encapsulation used in scratch-and-sniff samples. My partner has all sorts of stories about the characters she’s met in her life and there’s a lot of really intelligent, create technical people.

There’s a little bit of that stuff left here, but it’s exclusive to the industry defense. There are hardly any companies hiring for any scientific/technical work outside of that. In their place, junkies, urban blight, and shitty Chinese manufacture ring companies that dodge immigration law.