Want to relocate, but can’t give up Bay Area salaries
Apr 16
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Born and raised in the Bay Area, even went to college here. I’m ready for a change of scenery and want to move to another big city. I considered NYC but I’m particularly fond of London after a few trips there. I just got out of a relationship and have no kids so if there’s any time to do this, it’s now.
I’ve done local interviews for practice but I can’t get over the idea of taking a pretty significant pay cut just to experience a new country. Seeing local offers only made me question myself.
Any tips? Any companies to consider, or referrals? Would it be career trajectory suicide to even consider this?
TC 250, YOE 5
#relocation #career #london #sanfrancisco #software #salary #swe
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A work permit may be problematic, but I don’t know details.
However, if you want to jump over 300K USD in London on senior level, it’s gonna be hard without jumping on staff level. In Bay Area 500K TC for E5 is more like a norm ;(
Or if you really want to move to another country for real and actually try to live there for real, then suck it up and get a job in the country and take the TC hit. You can always move back if it doesn't work out. View it in a similar way as someone taking a year off to travel would, except you still make some money.