Please share how your experience has been moving out of the greater seattle area to austin/charlotte/arlingron/other cities ? Good , bad , ugly. Considering moving out of this place. But scared to make the move with two young kids. Want to hear your experiences to get some idea.
Did the reverse. It's hard to generalise these cities since they are different but it sounds like you are just trying to move to lower col. Good: 1. Lower col. With your big tech money you can get a better house 2. Education and schools will be fine in suburbs since they have wealthier immigrant population. My former colleagues never complained about schools. All the kids went to fancy top 50 us schools. Bad: 1. Local jobs won't pay as well and unless remote you will have a tough time finding companies of similar pay. In charlotte msft is one of the highest paying companies out there. 2. Honestly I would say career wise it will be a culture shock. At majority of companies software folks are just regular employees. They aren't treated like they are at msft for example. It's good if you want to focus on other aspects of life and are fine with working at lower paying companies.
Seattle is mostly a rental city. People normally move out of it. If they made good money they move to California. If they are poor they move to Texas.
Not sure about the other cities but I can tell you that arlington will be a culture shock going from seattle to arlington. It’s a very east coast feel, people are very into their jobs which are mostly government/law/federal contractors and they will actually look down on you for working for big tech. I think if you liked seattle you probably won’t like arlington.
Move to NC and buy a big house with a huge yard. RTP is growing and Wake Forest is a great place. The good thing is that you already have kids, so have your guy get a vasectomy so you don't have to deal with their abortion laws. If you've got loads of cash, get a small beach house in Wilmington and live your life.
Or how about not having sex? That’s why they have abortion laws. The idea is to refrain from the unholy act. In China we have unlimited abortion on demand. It’s better to avoid at all costs because it can be painful. So nobody uses abortion. Me and wife pull out so we don’t get pregnant.