> And interview, how? And find it, how? Who will recommend them?
I got a job in New York, while living in Dallas.
Interview: by flying in on an airplane, staying in a cheap hotel, and lining up a few interviews a day for a few days.
Finding it: There's not a shortage of job sites, or recruiters breaking down your inbox.
Recommendations: your former coworkers and friends won't assume you get lead poisoning in the rust belt; they can still recommend you to others, and jobs to you.
I just recently moved from Dallas to New York, and it was only after years of frustration and being ignored by almost everyone outside of Texas not named Amazon (and most companies in Texas that weren't in Dallas). I didn't have recruiters breaking down my inbox. My submissions on job sites seemed to be going in to black holes. If I got multiple interviews in a month I considered myself lucky. I didn't have any former co-workers outside of DFW to call on, and very few inside it.
I'm willing to accept that I'm unusual, but people in this thread are making it sound like I'm a unicorn. I think this industry has serious geographic myopia, and that it is one of the reasons the "talent shortage" is more severe than it needs to be.
I got a job in New York, while living in Dallas.
Interview: by flying in on an airplane, staying in a cheap hotel, and lining up a few interviews a day for a few days.
Finding it: There's not a shortage of job sites, or recruiters breaking down your inbox.
Recommendations: your former coworkers and friends won't assume you get lead poisoning in the rust belt; they can still recommend you to others, and jobs to you.