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Ask HN: Best city for a career in tech in Texas? Austin, Dallas, or other?
EDIT: I'm specifically asking as someone starting out in Product looking for career advancement and exciting products, not solely startups however.
- zer00eyz 10y agoTwo questions: What role... EE, IT, sys admin, web dev (front/back end) What kind of company (start up, established etc)
- DGAP 10y agoI'm specifically asking as someone starting out in Product looking for career advancement and exciting products, not solely startups however.
- dudul 10y agoI always see a lot of job postings for Austin. Plus, the city is supposed to be really nice.
- mrits 10y agoIt's horrible. People are literally dying here. Stay away
- shiftpgdn 10y agoI know you're being sarcastic but if you own your home wouldn't you want as many people as possible to move in? It'll drive up your property price.
- amerkhalid 10y agoAnd property taxes. Unless you are selling your home anytime soon, higher home prices don't really benefit you in any meaningful ways.
- mrits 10y agoWhat good is a house if you can't get to it?
- csa 10y agoYou will most likely find more finance-oriented tech jobs in Dallas. Other than that, Austin will have a much wider range of options. That said, your career will likely be extremely limited by your inability to communicate clearly (based on your extremely vague initial question and your only-slightly-better edit[1]). I suggest you hack this issue ASAP and take it seriously -- it's not that difficult, and it will make a huge difference. [1] I realize that this is the interwebs and all, and there are many opportunities to clarify vague initial comments (e.g., your edit), but people really value and appreciate people who ask good questions from the start.
- DGAP 10y agoThat's a fair point. Since you've given me the opportunity to clarify via your own response, I'll provide some more details: I'm interested in product management as a long term goal. I find Austin to be a more enjoyable city to live in than Dallas, but Dallas seems to have more career opportunity. Will I be limiting myself by living in Austin?
- csa 10y agoI will defer to other people's judgments on your clarified question -- I am extremely biased towards Austin (I have lived there before and have very fond memories of the city). I will, however, reframe the question and provide a related answer. Visit each place, and figure out which one you enjoy spending time in. Specifically, which place has people you really like to spend time with. As I suggested above, I'm an Austin fan, and it's not even close. YMMV. Once you've narrowed down a place, then you can focus on a job. "Project management" is a very broad category, so finding something that fits it shouldn't be that difficult. That said, if you're implying something (e.g., you want to be a PM for BigCorp or BigBank with job attributes X, Y, and Z), then maybe the place will matter. Personally, I think that's at best premature optimization or at worst the wrong focus. Best of luck... please keep us updated.
- hkarthik 10y agoQuestion is very vague. Are you looking for a career in "Product" as in Product Management? If so, you are asking the wrong question. Best way to get into Product Management is to move into it after doing something else (e.g. engineering, support, operations, etc). Find a company working on products you love, get a job there, and convince the product leadership you know how to make something better. The best way to go about that is to be location independent. Go where the products you love are.