Austin, Denver, Detroit: Good Places to Be a Software Engineer Looking for a Job

Post by antisthenes » Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 6:15 PM UTC

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I've had no shortage of suiters. Granted I say that as a single dude, but I know a few who would date me. MANY more times that of Denver. Just because I know more people because everyone is so friendly. I mean there is a whole university to offset from the software engineers.

Maybe age is part of the problem for me. I'm about 10 years older than the undergrads, so they're not really in my dating pool. Most of the dates I've gone on were with fellow graduate students, but I didn't go on many dates before stopping.

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 6:42 PM UTC

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> Well, there is a big difference between "Austinites" and people that moved to Austin from somewhere else and now make up 4/5ths of the population. I made up that number, but it's not a bad guess. Austin is an east coast city in Texas. You could say the same thing about SF, Oakland, Portland, LA, Seattle, Boston, New York, etc etc. Name a city with a booming economy in the U.S. that isn't mostly transplants. > Every…

Maybe, but I've lived in those places you mentioned (except the east coast cities) and the problem is stifling in Austin. I'm originally from a small, liberal college town in a conservative plains state which in the 80s might have been a great twin city for Austin, if somewhat smaller. So I have some insight into what it "should" be like when people describe how cool Austin is, or how cool people have heard Austin is…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 6:53 PM UTC

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When did you last do Android? I've done both for about eight years and while the development tools at first on Android were total trash I cannot stand Xcode and the iOS development ecosystem these days. Throw in Swift and things get worse. On the other side, Java/Kotlin interoperability in Android Studio is great and the tooling keeps improving.

I still do Android. A lot better since we went to studio, but it's still far far from where it needs to be.

Post by dang » Thu, Feb 22, 2018, 9:53 PM UTC

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I found myself with brogrammers that had 0 engineering style hobbies What is an "engineering style hobby"? I work in the SF Bay Area, and the most popular hobby of my coworkers is "parent".

You can afford Thai children? Lucky!!

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Feb 23, 2018, 4:16 AM UTC

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> ... 0 engineering style hobbies... I can't comment on the rest of it, but many people move to Denver because they have outdoor style hobbies, and think that it's near the mountains. They are probably disappointed to find that it's more or less the standard Great Plains sprawl -- Dallas within a few hours' drive of Longs Peak -- and that Boulder is an overpriced NIMBY colony.

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