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Escape from California?
An anonymous reader asks: "Is there any escape from California? I'm a very experienced software engineer (7+ years) with a MSEE and lots of great work experience. Even in this market, jobs in CA are easy to grab if I want them. Trouble is, I don't want to live here anymore. Six figures in Northern CA gets mostly pissed away on a mortgage for a house that isn't worth half that anywhere else, and I'm pretty much just waiting for the earthquake to hit and wipe it out. I'd love to move to the midwest, but decent software jobs seem to not exist. I'm more than willing to take a huge paycut to get a job there, but where to even start looking?"
yeah, all I gotta say is if he wants to live in the midwest, thank god it means he won't come up here to the northwest and increase my competition :P.
Plus "earthquakes."
I live in California. Earthquakes aren't bad. At least if something happens and your house is destroyed, it will all be in a nice neat little pile. (Well minus a fire, but there are precautions for that too).
Let's see. Move Midwest, you have Tornados. Now everything you own is scattered over 2 miles.
Gulf States and East Coast? Hurricanes and tsunamis.
Northeast? Fucking crazy blizzards!
Northwest? Volcanoes!
Hell, anywhere on earth? Possibility of a meteor strikes or lighting strikes or any other series of natural disasters.
While I could understand your reasons for wanting to get out of California, citing a natural disaster doesn't seem to be the most wise decision.
Whatever you do, don't come to Portland. I barely managed to grab a job as it is; I don't need any qualified techies snapping things out from under me. That said, I love it here. But stay away. I'm warning you.
and I'm pretty much just waiting for the earthquake to hit and wipe it out.
I'd love to move to the midwest
Oh great, then a tornado will destroy your house.
If you are considering a move to the greater Detroit area in Michigan... I hear my job is opening up soon.
Don't move to Portland. Oregon is full. Unemployment is sky-high and for Californians, if the weather doesn't get you, the locals attitude towards you will. That being said, if you do move to Oregon, keep to yourself, claim you're from Arizona and never carry an umbrella (doing so marks you an outsider and people get pissed about the eye-level hazard. Get real raingear like a trenchcoat or poncho instead).
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Urban legend speaks of a sign on the California/Oregon Border on a major interstate. The sign is one of those "Welcome to our state" signs that read "Oregon, a great place to visit."
On the back of the sign was a hand written addendum: "Don't forget to leave"
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