[philbo87]

I don't know if I agree with you that the midwest is a terrible place to be for tech. I'm located in a medium sized midwestern town, working on interesting web applications and using modern technologies. I am paid well. No, I don't make SF money. But my rent is 30% of what I'd pay in SF as well.

If you want to make a living working for trendy unicorn startups, then the midwest certainly doesn't have as many of those. But if you are on top of your career, and are happy to keep your skills up to date, then you can find many interesting opportunities here. And if you don't want to keep your skills up to date, there seem to be plenty of places looking to hire people to maintain old enterprise apps written in VB...

I find this job market to be absolutely fantastic. I have lots of opportunity coming my way on a regular basis. And since there is a lower supply of qualified engineers, I feel as though I could command more salary.

I can make enough money here to live an extremely high quality of life, and raise a family while doing so. For me to go to a tech hub, I would need to receive one hell of an offer.