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If you are a tech person, I'd say you should seriously consider the Silicon Prairie. For example, it doesn't surprise me this article emphasizes Nebraska. Wher
by 27182818284 9y ago
If you are a tech person, I'd say you should seriously consider the Silicon Prairie.
For example, it doesn't surprise me this article emphasizes Nebraska. Whereas this article mentions not owning a home in California, you can readily afford a home out in the Midwest. If you don't want that, grab a two-bedroom apartment that costs you less than a $9,00 per month. Insane commutes don't exist.
Places like Kansas City have Google Fiber and other places like Lincoln and Omaha don't have Google Fiber, but still gigabit Internet or even 300Mbps Internet plans (for $60/month)
For a while, the fastest growing company in Nebraska was a tech startup called Hudl (https://www.hudl.com/)--which https://www.hudl.com/)--which you really can't even call a startup anymore since they're big enough to be building their own buildings now.
- enraged_camel 9y agoKansas is awful - don’t move there. Governor Brownback’s insane low-tax plan has starved government services and thoroughly ruined the state over the past decade.
- newnewpdro 9y agoCitations would be helpful...
- enraged_camel 9y agoHere: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/sam-brownback-kansas-budget-override.html?referer=https://www.google.com/ https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/06/07/us/sam-brownback-kansa... Brownback’s tax plan was so awful for the state that Republicans called him out on his bullshit and overrode his veto of a tax increase bill. Article has more details and links.
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- trowawee 9y agoMy wife and I spent seven years going to school and working in Omaha. It's a nice little city, but if someone valued the benefits of urban life (restaurants, sports, social events, public transit, etc.), I think they would eventually be disappointed. We left Omaha feeling like we'd basically finished the city, like it was a level in a game - in the 3ish years after broke-college-student status, we had tried pretty much every interesting restaurant, checked out the social events that were available to people in the post-college, pre-kids bracket, and there just wasn't much novelty left. We moved to Chicago for work a few years back and we still haven't scraped the surface of life here. Are there problems with Chicago? Of course. But the quality of life is dramatically improved for this sample size of two.