Seek employment elsewhere with an understanding you are relocating and take that offer to your existing firm. They either take it and you get to live where you want and make you what you want while keeping the same job or you get to make what you want and live where you want working for the new company. Get your current comp and ongoing comp moving forward written into your employment agreement and If you think your current employer is going to screw you over then move on.

I work remotely. I ditched the silicon valley rat race more than a decade ago and still make a great salary as I won't accept employment somewhere that tries to lowball me based on where I choose to live. You shouldn't either. If the firm doesn't counter they are definitely getting you for less than they budgeted.

Don't depend on someone else to get you a "good deal". Have another offer in your back pocket and use that leverage. If you feel you are truly being treated poorly then look around for something new. Don't fall for the myth of "company spirit" or any such thing. Business is business. Keep your feelings out of it. Keep a cool head and always be professional.

People supplying bricks, supplying molotov ingredients, providing transportation and paying cash to people for violent acts are causing/enabling at least some part of this violence. Why have their been so few arrest of those folks? From videos, they seem to be mostly young white men, so no "evil racist pigs" issues that seem to paralyse law enforcement these days.

I lived in Nancy Pelosi's district 15 years ago. I hit the spam button on every email I get from her and yet they still appear in my inbox. She's still sending me emails to the email address I only ever used for cali government websites (DMV, FTB and such) (but that is another thread).

conversely many things I'm actually interested in seeing in my inbox end up in spam even when I tell google that they aren't spam. And this is with a paid org, not "free (you and everyone you communicate with are the product)" gmail.

I keep an empty inbox and spam folder, so it's not hard to manage, but like most people posting in this thread I'm probably not the common case of gmail users.

There will be future RHEL 7 security and stability updates at least through the end of the 10 year support cycle in 2024. That gives time to move workloads to RHEL 8.

Someone talked about upgrading hosts directly. That is possible and supported for RHEL7 to RHEL 8 with some limitations and there are built in tools to help by pre scanning your RHEL 7 hosts that will provide advice. These tools are under rapid development as they encounter all the interesting things we do on our servers out in the wild :-)

I'm _sure_ this was far down the list of actual criteria :-)

He gets a good commute, company gets some more govt subsidies to help crush the remaining competition who lack that kind of access.

Both are really expensive places to live which sucks for the people working for him, but really Seattle has become the same.

The residents of the few mid-sized cities that were in the running should be breathing a sigh of relief.

I grew up on the Canal Zone while the Sturgis was operating in the 70s.

There are plenty of floating reactors in warships.

When 66% of undergrads have student loans (http://www.finaid.org/loans/), if we went back to a private loan system with risk to the debt vendors, the higher educational system would implode. No longer able to raise fees at double the rate of inflation or more in order to support sinecure professors and with many fewer students we'd see massive downsizing and closing of schools. The gov't wouldn't like that.

The federal educational loan system also keeps people out of the unemployment numbers for 2 or 4 or more years. The government likes this.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/student-loan-debt-hell-21-statistics-that-will-make-you-think-twice-about-going-to-college

For the small percentage of people who actually need a college degree, go for it. For the rest of us, stop wasting time. Find a trade and start working.

Live with your parents, work and go to a community college for a couple of years, see if you find something you enjoy that will pay more than minimum wage. You might find something that isn't in engineering, medicine or law and doesn't require any more schooling. Get a few years head start on a career. Or at least get all of the general ed requirements out of the way and learn how to study. Transfer as a Junior to a school with a "good" program in the field you want. Leave purdue and the rest to the trust-fund babies.

Cover it up, fill it w/ air and strap on wings!

It's a private company. They can serve what they want. They can stop serving it at any time they want.

NJ and NYC have really high energy costs.

Our utilities (gas+electric) vary between $115 and $135. More gas in the winter, more electricity for AC in the summer. This is 1/2 of what we paid to good old PG&E for smaller places.

It is quite possible to work onshore in the outskirts of a small city in "flyover country". Still the "Boonies" to someone currently in SF, Seattle, Boston, NY.

We drive many fewer miles than we did in the SF Bay Area. We had to drive to get to: groceries, park for the kids, YMCA, church, work, friends

Here we drive for work (20 minutes), groceries (10 minutes) and to the Y (5 minutes). Our gas budget is 1/2 what it was.

We have starbucks, vastly better schools (on average) than any of the big cities. No "whole foods", but we do have co-ops, real farmer's markets and "natural" food stores.

I do pay $50/month for 10meg down/1 meg up internet which suffices for me.

Two large hospitals within a 20 minute drive and an uncrowded ER 6 minutes from our house (driving the speed limit).

Heh,

We get a few inches of snow that sticks for the day a couple of times during winter. The mountains around us get plenty for skiing.

The biggest cost savings is in housing costs. Compare similarly sized places and you'll see a big win. Just don't trade up to a McMansion just because your payments will be similar to what you are doing now. Buy what you can be comfortable in.

Check on property taxes as they are really high in some states/counties and that could be a shock.

An advantage of moving to the suburbs of a smaller city in the hinterland is that you will generally have several options for tech employment.

Some of the small towns with 1 big tech employer will have different salary dynamics.