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oRenj9 posted:You're probably going to have to take a big pay cut. Low 100s seems to be the high-water mark for tech salaries in much of the midwest and the BLS suggests the median salary is right at $90k. And being a red state does not guarantee lower taxes when there are three local government entities taking a few percent of your income each (on top of federal, state, property, sales, etc). gently caress special assessment bonds. $100k might not sound like much to a Bay Area tech worker, but just to reiterate, you can get a great house (5 bedrooms, 3000+ square feet, acreage if that's your thing) for less than $300k pretty much anywhere but Chicago, and a pretty good one for the low 200s. Solice Kirsk posted:Generally the midwest is pretty nice, but in any major city they'll still go from nice to rear end in a top hat (and vice versa) in a split second. Try stopping in the middle of the sidewalk to take a picture downtown in Chicago at 8am and see how fast people just walk right over you or scream at you to get moving/get out of the loving way. Or getting shoved out of the way if you don't know L train etiquette and pause before choosing a direction on the platform. Those are the same people that will hold a door open for you two seconds later. Chicagoans are all wannabe East coasters. Don't lump them in with us. 
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You can try the usual websites like Glassdoor, but you probably need to actually get a job offer to see what the salary's like. I'd plan on maybe a 35-50% paycut ($140k to $180k gross). I'm basing that off of what engineering managers make in a different discipline, but software won't be too far off. Taxes will go down quite a bit - mainly because of the lower income, but your marginal rate might actually do down as well (depends on the state. Recruiters will try to make it sound like it's a given, but it's not). Housing will obviously be quite a bit less, as has been discussed. Food, kids, and medical probably won't be that different (maybe a touch less at restaurants and saving money on a public preschool). Shopping and travel are obviously personal discretion.
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