Fifteen Best Cities That You Never Thought of For Tech Jobs
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I don't know how "you never thought of" applies to this list other than NYC and Silicon Valley are left off of it. Most of the list are incredibly obvious like Chicago, Austin, Salt Lake City, Boulder, etc. A few surprises, but very few. Most that seem surprising are because they use the name of a suburb or neighbouring town to a well known tech hub. Like mentioning Tyson's Corners, which is in every list as one of the big three, but normally defined as NOVA (NOrthern VirginiA.) And Baltimore is really just a suburb of that same market.
Omaha and Baton Rouge might be the biggest surprises.
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Just need to find one that has a dairy industry.
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Being that I live in Omaha, I'm not overly surprised.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
Just need to find one that has a dairy industry.
Buffalo
True, I didn't really mind it up in Rochester and Buffalo is a nice city.
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No real work there, though.
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@scottalanmiller said:
No real work there, though.
I think that can be said for the majority of NYS...
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Speaking of Rochester, saw this petition this morning and was pretty surprised to see my home town on it!
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@scottalanmiller said:
Speaking of Rochester, saw this petition this morning and was pretty surprised to see my home town on it!
How do the sponsored petitions work? I can't imagine someone paid to have a ridesharing petition show up.
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@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Speaking of Rochester, saw this petition this morning and was pretty surprised to see my home town on it!
How do the sponsored petitions work? I can't imagine someone paid to have a ridesharing petition show up.
Yup, that's exactly what that means. It could be sponsored by a company (like I often sign ones sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund) or it could be sponsored by an individual. If you go sign that (or any) petition, you should be presented with an option to sponsor it if you would like. Can be very small, like $5 or $10 (not sure on the minimum) and can go pretty high, like $100 before you get into custom stuff.
If you have your own petition and want to get the word out, you can sponsor it yourself.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@coliver said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Speaking of Rochester, saw this petition this morning and was pretty surprised to see my home town on it!
How do the sponsored petitions work? I can't imagine someone paid to have a ridesharing petition show up.
Yup, that's exactly what that means. It could be sponsored by a company (like I often sign ones sponsored by the World Wildlife Fund) or it could be sponsored by an individual. If you go sign that (or any) petition, you should be presented with an option to sponsor it if you would like. Can be very small, like $5 or $10 (not sure on the minimum) and can go pretty high, like $100 before you get into custom stuff.
If you have your own petition and want to get the word out, you can sponsor it yourself.
Ah, ok... I thought it was done differently then that. Good to know how sponsorship works. Now that I think about it the way I thought it worked wouldn't work at all.
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I've mostly noticed NGOs being the sponsors, but individuals, normal companies and political groups would all be obvious choices. I am surprised that more political groups are not sponsors as it would be perfect for them.
And the petitions can be for anything. Not just to governments or whatever. So if you wanted to start a petition to Dell to get them to change their servers to being powder-coated in Italian race car yellow, you could start a petition and put a hundred bucks in to get it some attention and then, when you've collected half a million signatures, submit it to Michael Dell to convince him that there is a market demanding yellow servers.
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I've seen petitions trying to get the cast of television shows changed. That seems to be oddly popular.
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Not surprised by Omaha. Tons of call centers and support stuff is out of Omaha, in my experience.
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Now Baton Rouge, that's surprising...
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@thanksaj said:
Now Baton Rouge, that's surprising...
Yeah, I drive through there regularly and... what?
And how did Dallas and Houston not make the list when half of those places did?
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
Now Baton Rouge, that's surprising...
Yeah, I drive through there regularly and... what?
And how did Dallas and Houston not make the list when half of those places did?
Dallas might not have made the list for the same reason NYC and Silicon Valley didn't.... too obvious.
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It's also possible that because SO many of the jobs in the Dallas area are lowering paying jobs, and this is about the average salary and not the number of jobs, that Dallas didn't make the list. The vast majority of IT jobs in Dallas are call-center jobs that don't pay well.
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@thanksaj said:
It's also possible that because SO many of the jobs in the Dallas area are lowering paying jobs, and this is about the average salary and not the number of jobs, that Dallas didn't make the list. The vast majority of IT jobs in Dallas are call-center jobs that don't pay well.
True, Dallas is not at the top of the payscales by any stretch. But it is definitely not primarily a call center city. Deal with the Datamart and stuff and it is a decent amount of fairly high end IT.
What this list REALLY deals with is software engineering, something that Dallas does not do. That's why Austin, which has no IT, is on the list.
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@scottalanmiller said:
@thanksaj said:
It's also possible that because SO many of the jobs in the Dallas area are lowering paying jobs, and this is about the average salary and not the number of jobs, that Dallas didn't make the list. The vast majority of IT jobs in Dallas are call-center jobs that don't pay well.
True, Dallas is not at the top of the payscales by any stretch. But it is definitely not primarily a call center city. Deal with the Datamart and stuff and it is a decent amount of fairly high end IT.
What this list REALLY deals with is software engineering, something that Dallas does not do. That's why Austin, which has no IT, is on the list.
I don't know Scott. Even the jobs that aren't at the major companies like Verizon and Intel Security are with MSPs that work primarily remotely, so still basically a call center. Every job I had in Dallas was at some form of a call center. And that's the vast majority of the jobs.
