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Maybe everyone leaving should just agree to locate somewhere that isn't some major city. We can all go there & start a new tech scene. How about Wyoming? Or Montana? Utah? What I mean is we should go somewhere beautiful. Somewhere we can take walks outdoors in between coding sprints. Why walks? It's been scientifically shown that walking helps you remember things better. Also sitting too long shortens your lifespan.…
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I moved away from Seattle to the Bay Area partly because it was so damn depressing. My company-sponsored doctor gave me a bottle full of two _GRAM_ pills of Vitamin D, and she said she has had to give it to most of her patients. In the dead thick of the winter, it gets dark at 3 PM (after a 10 AM sunrise), and the rain literally never stops. When it's not raining, it's misting, and it will go weeks on end with everla…
This peaked my curiosity since I'm considering moving there. You must be exaggerating a bit since I just looked it up, and around the winter solstice the sun rise set times are like 7:55 - 4:20.
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They say Seattle is like a beautiful women (or man) who is sick 9 months of the year.
Seattle is ugly and garbage. It rains 100% of the year and there is never sunlight. It's full of homeless heroin addicts and has a super huge crime level. Stay very very far away.
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these days everyone in LA is working on some kind of tech-related nonsense. i moved here to get away from all that, and it followed me. now i just want to go live in the woods with my dog.
@beachstartup Me too. In North SD. Want to work on med device security and take company retreats in the woods?
Come to Montana. We have SoFi, Oracle, Vubiquity, Submittable, many other tech companies, and a great outdoor culture if you're into that.
What part(s) of Montana?
I really like the idea of moving somewhere outside the US with better work-life balance norms, such as the fabled 6 weeks of vacation mandated by Germany. Has anyone done this?
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Worked in all 3, Austria, Germany, US. Germany is indeed the best, but only if you can work remote for a US company.
german developer salaries are crap. in europe, only UK, switzerland and norway pay better for developers (UK is pretty decent if you are a contractor), but COL is fairly high, too
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I grew up in cuse and went to school at RIT. Why I'd never go back: 1. Snow, 2. Taxes Why I'd go back: 1. Insanely cheap 2. Hot plates Thus is life.
Did you mean garbage plates ;-)
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Must disagree on the culinary scene. We have everything you could want, from hole-in-the-wall ethnic to fine dining, though we are most definitely a beer town.
Fair enough, I had a heck of a time finding decent indian food in downtown other than at a single food truck that parked over by Wazee and 15th. And while Illegal Pete's made some decent burritos, having lived in the Bay Area for so many years, they were not competitive. That said, the characterization comes from mostly riding the 16th street free shuttle and exploring by dropping into restaurants all around downtown…