Just looked at Sysadmin and Network Admin jobs in TX...

[the86d]

https://youtu.be/P1EuMi3yAus

Looking pretty good.

[ibanezfoo]

They are plentiful...

Where are you looking?

Keep in mind a lot of those are with contractor mills that grind you through their system and treat you like crap.

I can send you the info for the recruiter we use if you want.

[the86d]

I was flipping out a bit as my boss scheduled a last couple minutes of the day Friday meeting, but it was a false alarm, as my coworker got it too, which I didn't know( as I was working from home the second half of yesterday)... I figured it'd be an opportunity to leave Cali.

Maybe I should really look now, as I researched the area, house prices, elevation (TX flood concerns), and rainfall, all in 30 minutes this morning...

The city I was looking (where the job was), looked like about 10 degrees cooler every month than where I live in Cali per month... WITH natural rainfall every month, but the humidity, mmmhrmmm?

I was thinkging I could about double what I have into this house so essentially pay outright for a larger house in TX, only sucking up the interest here I have paid so far as "rent", and the rest would be butterscotch-icing...

[sonofeugene]

Check for mosquitoes and other bugs. People always forget about that.

[ibanezfoo]

There’s only humidity in the south east. Central Texas where I am rarely gets noticeable humidity. It’s not like Houston which is like 200% humidity all the time. Flood concerns are easy... any neighborhood you buy in just make sure to buy at the top of the hill and find several ways out that don’t go through dips or across streams. Look for big drainage tanks. If you see them don’t worry about it because someone actually engineered the water flow. If no tanks just buy higher up.

What you really need to pay attention to is the local property tax rate. It could be anywhere from 1.3% to 3%. Mine is currently 1.8% and I moved from an area with 2.3%.

There’s also the critters...

Do they usually fire people at the end of the day there? My company always fires people in the morning.

[StandardFinn]

I was just talking to a woman who moved to SoCal recently at the dog park I go to on my lunch breaks every day - she's from Florida. She was complaining she can't drink enough water, lol!

Anyone that lives in SoCal knows that it's drier than a witches tit here and 50% humidity feels like suffocating. I was in Dallas/Ft. Worth area for a year, about 5 years ago. The humidity there will smack you in the face if you're from the desert lol. I visited family in TN a few years back and remember stepping out of the AC pressurized airport into a STIFF humid spell and had to take a few deep breaths.

While California weather is unbeatable, it sure thins your blood out and makes other climates seem relatively extreme.

[the86d]

I worked in Louisiana, Maryland, OR, TN, TX, and Mex. over the last year and a half, prior to the 'Rona... LA was very... moist, but it rained my first day there. Just basic tasks made those working "DRIP" sweat, just being outside of air-conditioning. TN had the most people pro-gun I have ever spoke with.

A guy in the TN facility showed me a picture of a single AR, like 2 handguns and a couple of boxes of ammo,
and asked me what I have to say about his... stash.
I responded with... "I'd say... amateur, work harder on it..."
Then I told him that I can reload like "400-500 9mm/hour, easy, if I have help loading primer-tubes".

[kapache]

I got an email from Juniper networks as an in-home engineer, but I do a lot of day trading that I don't want to change my job working from home, and boss being 100% okay with me doing side jobs. Since, I've been here, Networking jobs better paid than SYSADMIN jobs.