I agree. As someone who did the "follow the jobs around the country" thing (in the US), moving somewhere without friends or family is very difficult. Some peopl

I agree. As someone who did the "follow the jobs around the country" thing (in the US), moving somewhere without friends or family is very difficult. Some people make it work, some people never do. If you need to move to a city, there's probably a city nearby that has jobs in your field. Any city with 100k-200k people or more will have tech jobs available, they'll just be at the IT department of a non-tech company. My first job was on the information security team of distribution company, for example. It was still a tech job and I still got to work with some cool technologies. Added bonus: the job was so laid back that I had tons of time to work on personal enrichment projects that both helped the company and gave me skills that furthered my own career (learning coding to automate some repetitive tasks, for example). After that I got greedy and started chasing tech jobs around the country and was miserable. I got a remote work job for a big tech company and moved back to my old city where I had friends and family and the CoL was below national average and I've never been happier. It's not advice for everyone, but I think it's advice that's under-expressed on HN and other SV-centric forums.