Hey Dudes, Dudets and Others, Part of the California layoff culture and thinking of taking a career break. Getting interviews, but not interested in taking a pay cut just to say I have a corporate job. I have integrity. Between Austin, TX and Florida (Maybe St. Pete’s), which would you prefer to move to for a career break? My motivation is primarily halving my rental costs and reducing taxes paid. Make your case in the comments. #Layoffs #Tech #FIRE #JobNoJob #WontBeTakenAdvantageOf
If you want to chill out and focus more on retirement then Florida, if you want to take a break and rejuvenate and restart your career then Austin.
Folsom, great schools and affordable housing and not ‘too much’ diversity
Folsom California?
Are you for real? The opportunity of Intel?
Florida weather is baaaad outside of winter. The humidity is suffocating.
Florida weather is great year round on the coast. You get a nice breeze all summer to cool you down and theres like over 300 sunny days a year
Lol no cool breeze for sure during the summer. It's pretty humid and hot but definitely better than the dry southwest US heat. Winters are amazing though.
Florida is for retirement. Do not go there unless you are end of career
Austin has really good food, kinda like NY/Montreal food scenes
Good food, what do you eat
I need to know as well. All I see in Austin is crappy food
Lol let me pick the 2 worst states in the US to choose from. Abbott vs Desantis. I’d rather live in Afghanistan
Probably because you are a f*ing liberal punk, you wouldn’t survive in Afghanistan longer than 24 hours. Birds will eat your eyes after you are done, and no one is going to care really. So you better stay in CA for now, trust me.
Rank the states by the highest gdp growth rate 😅
You are insane to take a career break now
I don’t have kids, so I think I’ll be ok.
Only in the US do people think like that. Not working for a year if you have savings to see the world or just for some R&R is OK
I live in St Pete. It's a pretty nice place to live, has nice downtown activities and restaurants. Infrastructure/ city itself is pretty new and definitely one of the best places in Florida to live. Rent's rising steadily though. Tampa Bay/ Saint Petersburg is not the best place for networking in tech and corporate jobs, if you care.
Honestly I’m thinking of just doing my own thing, so I’m not worried about networking. Tech has been an interesting space to work in, but there’s more to life than saying you worked at Google, etc. I never imagined I’d be sitting in front of a computer, indoors 10 hours a day after graduating many years ago.
Seems like there’s a pretty cool arts scene in St. Pete’s.
I have lived in all 3. California is definitely better but between other 2 i would choose florida. Because if you want to chill out florida is place to be. Austin is good place to live but thats it there is nothing around austin where you can go. Also summers of Texas are more brutal. Rent wise i dont think there is significant difference between florida and austin.
Ya Austin feels like a bit of an island in Texas and agree the summers are brutal temperature-wise. I would love to stay in CA, I love it here but it’s not worth the cost in my opinion if I’m taking a break. If I could pay Austin prices to live in the Bay Area, I wouldn’t have made this post. Being able to live in Austin for 2 years verse 1 in Bay Area rents opens up a whole new world of possibilities in how I might spend that extra year.
Agree so i would recommend florida
Career break as in vacation? Florida Career break as in actually live in one of those? Stay in CA
Wtf would anyone want to voluntarily live in California 💩
Career break as in I might work for myself for a year to see if I like it. While I’m on that break I’d rather pay half the rent. No sense in paying CA rents while I decide.