[natch]

Looking for just one job is not enough. To feel secure leaving silicon valley, you need a wide choice of jobs and employers in the area where you go to, in case the first job doesn’t last. From here every other place looks to have more limited options.

[LargeWu]

Well, it's clearly a tradeoff. By staying in the Valley, you are prioritizing having options at many startups at the expense of home ownership.

I live in Minneapolis. Not as wide ranging options here, but many of them are at fortune 500 companies (relatively stable), and homes are affordable. I'm sure you can find examples in many other similar cities.

The Valley may have the most opportunities of anywhere, but to say that there's just no work anywhere else is a bit ridiculous.

[mrep]

The bay area might have the most programmers, but there are still tons of programmer jobs outside of it. 80% of programmers don't live in california [0]. Almost every fortune 500 company has some software developers so there are jobs in every decent size metropolitan area. A lot of the big companies also have satellite offices you can work at. I just moved from Seattle to Chicago and it only cost me 4% of my salary and I've already had 5 recruiters ping me on linkedin since I moved here a few weeks ago.

[0]: https://dqydj.com/number-of-developers-in-america-and-per-st...