Recently I moved from Los Angeles to the Bay Area with my family and I am still in job market shock.
Overall I see that the Bay Area Flash Development market is strongly sided with the pure engineering aspect of flash while the los angeles market is focus on the creative.
I would almost 80% of the flash dev's I work with are Computer Science trained WEB 2.0 people who have picked up flash in the last 2 years. There approach to development is almost pure engineering in which I am in constant awe as they do not use any of the pre conseved notions of what flash can and can not do. Most do not know the Flash IDE, and work in Textmate, Flash Builder or Flash Develop.
Most of the Los Angeles based flash developers I worked with have a more creative background and who both know programming and light art skills. An LA Dev would be expected to know Photoshop as well as development, and would know the Flash IDE as well as one of the other IDE's.
Which one is better? Do not know. I do know that the bay area is doing things in flash that are much more advanced than what I have worked with in Los Angeles, but I feel sometimes they are missing the creative spark that makes flash more than a simple web language.
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