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Is it time to get some certs and move to the midwest?
The American Midwest is Quickly Becoming a Blue Collar Silicon Valley
Lucas Peterson
Jose Bell
Bump. This is interesting
Isaiah Robinson
Agreed and this seems like the kind of work a lot of Sup Forumsacks would be able to get behind. I can't imagine these tech skills being useless
Elijah Bennett
Sup Forums has some good stuff for getting into networking and information security
Ayden Wilson
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BOOM check this out, great step by step guide with TONS of free videos and resources.
Ya'll need to step it up and get in on this
John Mitchell
I'm an IT guy and I live in the midwest. There's plenty of opportunity, housing is dirt cheap compared to most of the country, and we fucking love our guns.
Owen Moore
Why do people act like the entire midwest is a farm? There are multiple large cities, good sized towns, suburbs just like anywhere else in the US.
Jacob Bennett
Startups need to do two things, IMHO, having done it a couple of times. 1) offer products that produce cash immediately and 2) have low overhead. Add in a research university to consult and hire talent out of and you are golden. Running your business in a low-overhead location while providing value to clients only makes sense. This is what made Route 128 so potent in the '80s and why Silicon Valley is about to dry up.
>Fuck San Francisco.
Jack Barnes
>Why do people act like the entire midwest is a farm
Well, 90% of it is. kek.
Chase Brown
That all sounds great. There just is obviously a general conservative sentiment there.
I live in Florida currently and everyone is acting like defending your gun rights is equivalent to being complicit in these shooting. Its fucking ridiculous.
David Jenkins
If your from California, don't move here
Luis Russell
Oh don't get me wrong the "infection" is present here as well.
Do you live in rural or urban Florida?
Jacob Thomas
>BOOM
>reddit spacing
Gtfo
Ryder Turner
ima comin for ya
Jack Harris
>Why do people act like the entire midwest is a farm
How do you think the USA eats? People weren't against ethanol in the fuel because it destroys engines. We were against it because it wastes corn, which is food.
Alexander Anderson
This. This is what I'm trying to get at, what are the reasons to believe there is longevity in this swing towards tech in the midwest?
That is very helpful info. I know I've been looking to move for awhile and the Midwest is looking more and more attractive.
That's unfortunate to hear. I understand why but I wish people weren't so kneejerk and irrational about it.
I'm currently in an urban area in central Florida, going to uni here
Lol did something I say something unhelpful? Who cares if I spaced it that way?
Dominic Price
I hope to eventually move there from this paki shithole
Landon Campbell
Besides those notes on capital, product and access to a university, other things that are useful include a medium-large airport, mixed-use buildings in town like warehouses or old factory space, decent to fast network access near a backbone and if needed access to a rail line from that warehouse. Also useful depending on product is access to lots of water and good highways. Other nice things are startup tax credits and politicians for sale.
All of these things are available in places like Ames, Iowa or Boise, Idaho.
Eli Reed
There's no beach in the Midwest, I need a beach, I'm a beach boy. I hate the Midwest. The people are nice though, very Germanic.
Cameron Baker
Hmm do you mind if I ask what particular kind of work you do? You seem very knowledgeable, I'm assuming you must run a business yourself.
And I like what I am seeing of those two places so far:
amestrib.com
usnews.com
I will miss all the cute booties too but the beach just can't make up for the toxic culture down here.
Levi Young
>Hmm do you mind if I ask what particular kind of work you do?
Sure, I've created two startups in the past and worked for a bunch of others, ranging from incompetent retards to ninja teams. All were on the East Coast. Some people found startups purely to leech money from investors. It's hard to ID these scumbags but try to avoid them. Others actually want to make the world a better place, hence why the Midwest is going to boom with tech.
I'm now in graduate school at a large land grant university in the middle of the country and love it. My girlfriend is from the Bay Area and so I know a lot of people working in tech there and they do silly shit like pay $3500/month for an apartment or $750,000 for a small 3 bedroom house.
We are looking at moving to Boise after graduate school because it's close enough to Commiefornia for her and business friendly enough that we can run our next enterprise without going broke during startup.