Google Bay Area vs NYC vs Austin
I have good teams interested from these 3 places and I need to make a call, other than good work and career progression social and dating life is important to me. Male/28
All depends on TC. I've lived in both Austin and NYC and with a TC ~200k you never feel limited by your options when it comes to living how you want to live. I would need a TC of >350k before i considered going back to NYC. All in all though I like NYC more most of the year (Winters are fucking brutal though, and if you have to commute on the subway/PATH its super annoying). I hate the Bay Area outside of San Jose, but have never lived there so can't offer any input. Regarding dating, assuming you are a male, NYC offers the best odds from a pure ratio perspective but dating in NYC is difficult bc of how rushed everyone is and how career focused everyone is. Austin is much more relaxed although the odds aren't nearly as favorable as NYC. From a career progression standpoint there are plenty of jobs in both, but companies tend to HQ more in NYC
This is pretty useful, thanks
Google has Eng office in Austin?
Eng org just announced large expansion in Austin for Cloud
Being able to afford 4x the house on 10x the land while not paying state income tax to provide shitty redundant services sounds awful.
Dating a consideration? You want New York. I've lived in all three. Bay has an aggressive work ethic, drive. Austin oversells itself; most of what you hear about it isn't accurate, good and bad opinions. Tough to date and the locals have disdain for the California incoming - not negativity, there's just this annoying underculture of "welcome to Austin! What have you done for me?" before the locals will welcome you as a resident... Granted all the city immigrants feel otherwise - but even there it's odd that the locals claim to be inclusive, yet hate the incomers, while the incomers are among the most inclusive and supportive people I met in Austin. Then you have New York ... Where people to go to discover discover themselves; hence, go do that.
Did I read "dating" and "Bay area" together in 1 sentence?
Go to NYC .. a lot more diversity of people..
Wait. Maybe she said “dating”. Then Bay Area is a good place.