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by nunez 2930 days ago
Facebook is in Austin; Amazon is in Dallas
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burlesona 2929 days ago
Austin isn’t the south.

Raleigh / Durham probably is the best tech scene in the south. No mega companies but a good number of second tier, ie. Redhat, Sas, Epic, and so on

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nunez 2928 days ago
Last I checked, Austin is south of the Mason-Dixie line and has plenty of small towns around it that will be glad to remind you that you’re in the South.

RDU definitely has an enterprise tech scene. So does DFW!

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neutrino7 2930 days ago
Ok, so Texas is technically in the South... you got me.

I suppose I should have clarified: major southeastern cities (Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, D.C., Nashville, Miami)

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blasdel 2930 days ago
AWS has several thousand engineers in the Virginia suburbs of DC, with a bunch of local VP-level management

(and that's not including anyone who works on the us-east-1 region)

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didibus 2930 days ago
Apple and Amazon could end up choosing Raleigh for their HQ2. So maybe that'll soon change.
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akhilcacharya 2929 days ago
I've only ever lived in Raleigh and I'm very skeptical they'll pick Raleigh for HQ2.

I'll be very excited if Apple ends up deciding on Raleigh though, it could easily push up salaries significantly.

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