After getting married , which would be an affordable place with good tech job opportunities ? Note : my wife won't be working. I'll be the only working fellow. Right now I'm situated in bay area. Also please give feedback on how difficult it is to manage in bay area being the sole earner, is it manageable? Career interest : software defined networking, cloud computing.
Sole earner in Bay Area is fine as long as you don't but a bunch of shit that you don't need.
well.. he already bought a wife
Try Faang and I have been to Austin , its beautiful place and most of people from California have moved there.Pay difference is 10-20% but Austin is cheaper and you would see cost difference of 20-30%
I'm into software defined networking. So how are the job opportunities over there?
There are lots of opportunities there. Google and other companies are opening offices there. Existing companies are expanding there is lots of opportunities there.
Single-earner is possible if you work for any of the large tech companies in the Bay, even the non-FAANG firms. At my last job, everybody in my immediate org, including my first-level manager, had a non-working spouse, except for 1 guy that had a wife who worked part-time. We were all Engineers with at least 5 YOE.
But I'm a fresh college grad and il be marrying in 3 years or so. Will it be fine? If i stay in bay area?or i need to shift as cost of living is very high here.
The quality of life in the Bay is wonderful. You get it all - safety, schools, weather, close to the ocean/mountains/nationalParks, tech job opportunities, etc... but the biggest downside is the cost of housing. Living in the Bay is absolutely worth it if you can land a job in a top-tier tech company. If that’s not happening, then secondary Tech metros may be worth considering, but your quality of life will be a bit lower - Seattle, Austin, NY, Boston, Raleigh, etc...
I'm a single earner in Baltimore (my husband is a stay at home after we had our child). Works fine, but it's better in a big tech company. I avoid the Bay Area due to the poor cost of living (really all of CA, though the weather is nice there). Also don't compare what you have to others in this situation. Dual earner's will just have more but their situation is just different. Having stuff isn't everything.
So you suggest moving to a big 4 company in some other place than bay area?
That worked the best for me personally. High pay in a low cost area helps us financially for sure. I tried a big company in LA and it was tougher financially than where I'm living now. Housing was just too high. To give some ideas there's big tech companies moving to various east coast states where cost of living is much lower. Check out Amazon in Virginia, Google in Pennsylvannia, etc. Good to explore at least. Use some cost of living calculators online for the location. You can also check out the cost of housing in the area. Also note that the big tech companies are usually located in good areas within the state/city.
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Go FAANG. Single earner is enough.
You mean with fb, Amazon,apple, Google job in bay area is enough to manage being a single earner?
Only if you are L6/E6 or above