[bleezy]

I live in a 3k sqft house in Salt Lake City with a wife (who doesn't work) and a kid. I commute about 25 minutes to work, but my house is a 0.7 mile walk down a nice, sidewalked suburban street from a software engineering company with about 100 employees, good salaries, and a good reputation.

In SLC it's easy for a software engineer to make 100K and support a family in a large home on a single income. We moved out here from California for this very reason.

Maybe you don't consider SLC to be a 'major city', but you will probably find similar lifestyles for engineers outside of California, Boston, and New York.

[jklinger410]

It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist to certain people.

There are SO many cities with environments that this is possible, you just have to do a little cursory research. Businesses in these cities are hiring all the time because no one thinks about them. They don't have enough Starbucks or bike lanes. So we get articles talking about "can't" when it's really "won't."

Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Des Moines, Detroit, Tampa, Miami...

The list goes on and on of medium sized cities starving for dev talent without enough coworking spaces or incubators.

[vostok]

> It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist to certain people.

It's more that the rest of the country isn't comparable to Berlin. The cities that you listed are a great example of this.

> Austin, Dallas, Kansas City, Des Moines, Detroit, Tampa, Miami...

None of those are nice, dense urban cities in the way that Berlin is.

[gascan]

It's like the rest of the country doesn't really exist

I grew up in the Bay Area. I see the same thread talking to people who still live there.

[pascalxus]

That's the key, get out of CA, and get out of the bay area. It's hard to do, but worth it in the long run.