[Jgrubb]

I'm a contractor who lives in rural New Jersey. Back in late winter this year, I picked up one little Wordpress gig for a startup down in Austin. It went well. Since April, approximately 95% of the money I've made has come from companies based in Austin TX. I just got pinged yesterday from a contact about a potential long term dev gig that's looking to train the hire into the CTO over the next 2 years.

I'd love to move there because I'm really into the food and the music scene down there, but my Michigander wife is not into the brutal heat. I'm not sure what my point is, except that in my personal experience, Austin is absolutely exploding right now. There are at least a couple incubators down there, ala YC. The culture is really cool. It's pricey compared to Sussex county NJ, but there's also stuff to do there, not like Sussex county NJ.

Cheers.