Xinxin has been on the historical stage of Silicon Valley for several months.

There are two places to experience when you are young. One is New York, the center of culture and art, and the other is Silicon Valley, the center of technology in the universe. I packed up all my belongings in New York and moved to California with a great deal of vision for a new chapter in my life.

It's hard to explain to my family where I work after graduation. Silicon Valley is not an exact place name, but a large area of the technology companies, which is often called the Bay Area by locals. Whenever I can't tell what's in the Valley Bay Area and what's in the Bay Area of Silicon Valley, when I say "the countryside near San Francisco", my relatives will understand.

Find a house first. The rental market here is basically a seller's market, and the competition for a house is more fierce than that for a university. First of all, there are a lot of conditions for renting a house. At least we need to be clean, cook less, and have no overnight guests. With a few words, we can outline the impoverished image of poor college students who are single and have no room. The price of the house is only unexpected. A bathroom alone costs half of your salary.

It's easy to see the house and ask before others, submit rattan school's graduation certificate and voluminous resume, attach the rental application fee and background investigation consent, humbly prove to the landlords that they are cultural people with serious work, and also have to fear that the Java item on LinkedIn's home page will be eliminated due to insufficient praise.

Most of the people here are farmers with similar backgrounds. Doctors walk everywhere, and the north is as clean as a feather. Zuckerberg may be the only one with lower education than me. However, San Jose State University, which is close to the water and has the first chance to win, is the best choice. It can be called the Silicon Valley working harvester.

The traffic here is very difficult. Because they are all serious brick movers who go out early and return late, they have almost the same commuting time, so they are stuck in the sky in the morning and evening rush hours, and there is no alternative like the New York subway. However, the quality of drivers here is very high, which is different from the swearing of New York drivers. They will look at you silently and give you a look.

It's harder to find food. If you go out to eat, drive for half an hour on the road, wait in line for another half an hour, and it's already a fat man's turn to starve to death.

Although the canteen of the company is well managed, the degree of delicious food is proportional to the distance from the headquarters: there is no delicious meat in the canteen of Mountain View City, and everyone eats grass crowded with code, which is very healthy; The canteen in Yanggu County has at least fish and meat. San Francisco has a growing variety of fish and meat. New York has fish and meat and roast duck. The offices in the Asia Pacific region are delicious.

Let's talk about the wonderful flowers that Californians drink. It's not good to make a lemon juice or sweet tea. I can't bear to throw apples, pears, pineapples, peppermint into the water. What's the matter of breaking the vegetable leaves into green paste and adding ginger shreds? It's also called what the kyle. Put a label there on purpose.

The garbage classification in California is too difficult. Standing next to the trash can, I thought for a long time, and then I heard my friend say "wrong choice".

There is nothing to play in the Bay Area. In the first month of moving here, I could not avoid climbing mountains and getting close to nature. Want to drink and dance disco. Not only do you not know where to play, but also your friends in Canon do not know where to play.

I and other friends from New York regret it day by day.

If you don't pay enough attention to food, clothing, housing and transportation, then in addition to the rent for living, big companies can provide you with free meals, free T-shirts, free buses, medical insurance and transportation subsidies. Even sanitary products don't need to pay for themselves. They may buy roll paper used by buyers. However, if you pay more attention to getting a car and a house, the cost will increase exponentially.

The cost of living is soaring, and there is nowhere to escape in the surrounding areas. A circle of fresh friends around basically didn't save money, which can be called proletariat in the sense of bank deposits.

Everyone is trying to climb up. At ordinary times, when Chinese or Indian people get together, the topic is no more than who has been promoted, or who has bought a house. Fresh college students are undoubtedly at the bottom of the Bay Area. There are hundreds of thousands of seniors above the pyramid who are as smart as you and have more work experience.

I just live to the second episode. I can't admit defeat.

I thought California was my temporary destination. One sunny morning, I sat in the car and looked out of the window, suddenly realized that I had not really settled down. They may wander around the world and do not know where they will go in five years.

Alas, my wandering life.