International Market (Score 1)

In the US it's still pretty dismal (in Boston at least), but I wanted to know what else might be out there

Have you considered moving both you and your fiancee to India? Sad but true, I'm being 100% serious mate.

Everywhere I look, companies are abandoning domestic IT workers in favor of people in India who are willing to work for 1/4 the price. I bid on a database project (move about 6 million records from FoxPro/Access DB's to PostGresql and maintain the new DB fulltime) and lost to an outsourcer in India who bid 20 cents on the dollar compared to my very conservative bid. I was bidding what I could afford to live on, and the Indians could afford to bid a fraction of that.

The IT job market sucks everywhere, thanks to people in India who are well educated and have a much lower cost of living than those of us in the EU or Western countries. More and more European (and American) IT workers are losing their jobs to Indian contractors every day, even AOL are outsourcing their customer service to foreign countries. I don't blame the Indians, as they didn't do anything wrong, but instead I blame our companies for hiring them. It's a sad situation we lot are in and I hope it gets better quite soon.