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That's too bad. Do you love to program? I don't think people quite get how engineering centric SF/The Valley is. There is a meetup for everything and every th
by aantix 9y ago
That's too bad. Do you love to program?
I don't think people quite get how engineering centric SF/The Valley is. There is a meetup for everything and every third person you run into is an engineer. It's truly a programmers paradise.
And no where else do you have the salary leverage that you do in SV. If you have an amazing background with a couple of niche languages, and the right startup comes along that needs engineers with your skillset yesterday, you can manage a homerun salary deal.
The engineer is king in SF. I lived there for five years. And will never regret that time.
P.S. You can still manage good deals on housing in less trendy areas.
Hire a professional relocation assistant. Monica McGee
does freelance and corporate relocation. Money well spent and she helped my wife and I land a great deals on a couple of locations.
- jordanb 9y agoI love to program and I go to lots of meetups here in Chicago, but I also have a lot of friends who are not techies and I have conversations with people all the time that don't revolve around apps or frameworks.
- ryanx435 9y agothis sounds terrible. "hire someone to find you a place that you can afford because there are no affordable places" "if you luckily have the specific skill some random startup wants, you can make a "homerun salary deal", which you will need because living expenses are terrible, otherwise you are shit out of luck"