Ok, but is that relevant? I'm asking you to consider this bill and, more importantly, show support for the bill. Does how Hawley feels about tiktok in any way change whether congresspeople should be trading stock while in office?

I can’t say I recommend relocating because there’s a lot that goes into that decision. However, I’m a remote software engineer and I like living here well enough. There are a few coworking spaces around town and plenty of coffee shops if you want out of the house. The tech scene is growing here and there’s lots of people here who want to foster that growth. I think Springfield has a lot of potential, but as others have said, it’s not really that much cheaper than a bigger city now and it doesn’t have the amenities that a larger city does.

There are lots of small, local places that hire a handful of devs, but there are also some large companies that have hundreds of devs. We have O’Reilly, Jack Henry, and Expedia here and I know lots of local people who work at those places and like their jobs. I think Bass Pro also has some dev jobs here, as well as Missouri State University.

Your main dev shops here are O’Reilly Auto, Bass Pro Shops, and Expedia, and there are also a handful of smaller shops as well - between them all they’re almost always hiring, O’Reilly especially. I worked there for a number of years and had a good experience before getting a consulting job for a firm out of town, and working remotely from here has been terrific. Missouri State runs the eFactory downtown, and that provides a nice coworking space and incubator for startups. Most parts of town should have access to fiber internet soon as well. If you like Springfield itself, which I do, then it’s pretty easy to set up shop here.

If you get laid off, and have to look for a Springfield software job, which pays 30k-50k… I’m not sure you would enjoy that.

Honestly the idea of driving to an office again to sit in a shitty cubicle under fluorescent lights again... Oh hell no. The movie Office Space is real life, that's why it is so good.

It think so. Definitely. The market has changed a lot since a year ago or so, but I think anyone with experience and a strong resume can make $100k+

He’s the same one trying to ban tiktok too

I am a second year developer making around 85k local. Would I really be looking at more remote?

No local companies that I can recommend.

Long story short, they're not large enough to pay competitively. So if you want to make half, yes half, of what someone else doing the same thing does for another company, then sure work local.

Shop local, work remote.

There are many career software engineers/managers/related that post on this sub and live and work in SGF. Whether a person wants to live here depends on a lot of things, but there are absolutely development jobs around.

If you want to live in a totally redneck, Hoosier area, move to Springfield

O’Reilly currently has several remote Software Engineer positions available.

I've been volunteer at Wonders Of Wildlife for over a year... you should also check at animal shelters.

I’m teaching myself front end web dev pls go away/stay away

I didn’t call him a populist I just said he has some good ideas

What’s your specialty, “software engineer?”

Yeah, and we see how the republicans demanded that tRump be bound by the emoluments clause. This is political grandstanding bullshit and nothing else. Brought to you by the embarrassment that is rural missourah. Remember Roy Blunt wasn’t just figuratively in bed with lobbyists, he was literally in bed with a lobbyist

I really appreciate the honesty but where else could I go? We live in a small town of 10,000 and we have shootings that happen in broad daylight, plenty of SA cases that roll around every week, and plenty of drugs and I know this because I work at the hospital and see it.

There’s no rentals here or in any nearby towns and it’s minimum wage or they pay you less because legally they get away with it. So if not Springfield then where else?

This place is an honest to God shit hole filled with sub par rental properties and meth heads. Looking for better wages ? Don't move here. Looking for great schools? Run away. Wanna get a nice place? Won't be here. Seriously housing is high. Pay is the lowest in the state and crime and violence is at an all time high.

Yeah Ill back this up too, last I checked, springfield rent prices are only like 100-200 from St Louis/KC prices. There probably are not any career level software dev jobs here or getable in our area, even remote. Very little to do here as well to be honest.

I second this advice with what little know though.

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If you're concerned about getting laid off, no, I wouldn't relocate.

The area's not nearly as cheap as it used to be, and has very few of the benefits you'd be used to in a larger city.

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