Where would be a great place to relocate to?

[Luckymoose]

I second rural Alabama.

 

[Antilogic]

I feel like I need to make a more serious plug for Boston now, a lot of people are recommending their hometowns/current homes. If you are looking for single (highly-educated grad student) ladies, Boston is the right place to find them.

Or rural Alabama. That sounds good too.

 

[Mango Elephant]

I'd go after my heart, and my heart is in San Francisco

I've never been there though, but I just like it

Oscar Wilde says California is "Italy without the art."

Well, um, Austin springs to mind.

Lots of technology, and software engineers are in short supply. You have no idea how hard it is to find candidates.

It's the most liberal city in Texas, probably one of the most liberal in the US outside of the coasts. GOP state legislators often refer derisively to us as the "People's Republic of Travis County". So you do have to contend with the fact that you're in a deep red state. The good news is that the other major cities in Texas are moving our way politically.

As for being inexpensive, well, it's pricier than it used to be. Depends on how much space you need and how close to downtown you want to be.

I'm surprised you were the first post to mention Austin. It is a great city.

 

[galdre]

My two recommendations:

Seattle (where I currently live) - pros: good food, mellow people, and plenty of software jobs; cons: grey, grey, and it's grey

Boston (where I lived before) - pros: beautiful nature, low crime, low unemployment; cons: they don't call it M***hole for nothing, crappy food

Avoid the SF bay are; lived there before and while the weather is nice and mild it is expensive to live in, has high unemployment, growing crime, and has been ruined - I miss how the bay area was before silicon valley when it had orchards and vineyards everywhere

 

[Oruc]

Scandinavia.

I'll meet you over there

 

[Mango Elephant]

they don't call it M***hole for nothing

I believe you, though I've never heard Boston called that (maybe because I've never met many Bostonians). Excuse my ignorance, but why would anyone call Boston a M***hole? Is it sexist? Are the people rude? I just don't know what M***hole means.

 

[Arwon]

India!

 

[downtown]

Arrogant, annoying people from Boston are called Mass-holes.

Boston, NYC, The Bay, etc are all lovely, but they're also very expensive, and Murky said he doesn't have a ton of cash.

 

[Cutlass]

Anywhere on the coast north of Boston to Portland Maine would be my choice.

 

[Antilogic]

Yeah, you run into a few m-holes. Although not as many as I expected, given the horror stories I was told before moving here.

And food isn't that crappy in Boston--if you think it is, you just haven't been going to the right places. Booze is far more expensive than it needs to be, though.

 

[Mango Elephant]

Arrogant, annoying people from Boston are called Mass-holes.

lol I thought the word was miffholes.

Boston, NYC, The Bay, etc are all lovely, but they're also very expensive, and Murky said he doesn't have a ton of cash.

In that case I would definitely recommend somewhere in the South.

 

[Zelig]

India or Eastern Europe.

India!

That's pretty clever.

 

[ZeletDude]

Boise has a lot of technology companies I'm pretty sure, it's a nice city (for Idaho ) and its relatively inexpensive
It's pretty Liberal for Idaho, but it is still in Idaho, so it's definitely republican leaning at the very Least .

 

[Jehoshua]

Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia.

You should find that you'd be right at home

 

[Captain_Epic]

I've heard that Fargo in North Dakota has some good software jobs. It's also got a fairly low cost of living as well.

 

[sophie]

Oscar Wilde says California is "Italy without the art."

California has changed rather dramatically in the 130 years since Oscar Wilde famously remarked that.

 

[Quackers]

London. Probably the only worthwhile place in the UK a foreigner should live in.

 

[sophie]

London. Probably the only worthwhile place in the UK a foreigner should live in.

Yeah, if by foreigner you mean member of the Russian mafia.

 

[Quackers]

Haven't run into many of them in my time. What type of circles are you running in? XD

 

[peter grimes]

Arrogant, annoying people from Boston are called Mass-holes.

Boston, NYC, The Bay, etc are all lovely, but they're also very expensive, and Murky said he doesn't have a ton of cash.

The barrier to entry in NYC is a serious problem. When we moved here neither of us had a job, but we had lots of contacts (friends, basically) in our industry. We took a sublet from a friend who was working out of town for a couple of months - that helped immensely. But getting our own place took a loan from my family. But within a year we had our own apartment, very steady + growing earnings, paid back the loan in full.

A new person in town should definitely pursue family and friends to help with the housing situation. And expect to spend about $250/week on living expenses - rent, food, transportation, data plan. $250/week may sound like a lot, but the pay definitely makes that doable.

If we were going to do the move today, I'd like to have 3k in the bank first. If I had a job to go to - even a freelance project or 3, I'd be fine with 1k. But it's still dicey.

I think the key is to target your job search and then worry about where the jobs happen to be, rather than deciding where to go and looking for jobs there. But that may just be my perspective as someone who's already established in my field. At this point I could find work in nearly any city - or at least I'd like to think so