It's just like finding a job in your hometown. Monster and the other job sites allow you to filter specific locations, so it's not hard to find out what they have listed. You can also look at various companies located here and look directly at their websites. The only difference is that you will be traveling farther for your interview.

Seattle? Come to Austin instead. It's like Seattle except without all the rain.

Seriously, though, my father's family is from Seattle and it's a pretty cool place so good luck. My biggest problem getting from NOLA to ATX was the fact that just about everyone preferred local candidates... and no one was paying to fly in remote candidates. So either you're going to have to spend some bucks on airfare or get there first and pound the streets. Of course, your experiences may differ.

One more plug: ATX was ranked the second best big city in 2006. (They focused on "small towns" in 2007.)

Seattle started that rumor of being the rainiest to keep the Californians from flocking up north.

Nothing really. I just get homesick for Seattle and get defensive when I hear people go on about how rainy it is. The overcast days may depress people not used to them, but the near continuous sun & humidity of NC make me irritable... and it's not even June yet...

I moved to Seattle from Nashville almost exactly a year ago. It's fabulous up here. I was lucky job wise, I basically transferred to the same restaurant up here. I also knew a few people from WoW that I came to visit before making the big move.
When you are ready to look for jobs up here, I would think that in this wonderful city of technology and relaxed attitudes, you could maybe find some companies willing to do an online video interview, or something along those lines? My bf has a phone interview next week, and the job's local. So you never know.

I still like portland better. But I've got family there so I'm inherently biased.

Also Shhh. Portland should remain a poorly kept secret.

Austin rocks too, just went there in the spring for SXSW, and if i had visited there anytime during my college years, i'd probably be living there now.

Seattle is pretty fantastic though, if it wasn't for all the people. Don't get me wrong, i like the people there, there's just so many of them. They're a bit more stressed than the average person you might meet in Portland, too. This is a giant generalization, by the way.

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Well this place will fly you out for an interview if you've got the skilz. But some advice, you'll need to get certs within a year of employment if you don't have them (MCSE for network engineer and an MCP for all other IT jobs I think most people were taking the 70-271) and it helps to have blinders on to avoid the high school drama of the IT management. I worked there for just over two years and still have a few friends there so if you want more info give me a PM.

Seattle is, in fact, a perfect place. I lived there for two years ten years ago and have been trying to find my way back since.

Folks complain about the rain, but it is, in fact, a fiction. Vancouver, Canada gets more days of rain than Seattle and folks don't seem to mention that in their assessment of that perfect city. Same goes double for Portland. Washington, DC often gets more annual rainfall (Seattle rarely gets gullywushing thunderstorms) AND we get Code Red air quality days where asthmatics might as well be sucking off the ends of tailpipes. Seattle, in sharp contrast, wouldn't know bad air quality if it drove up from Takoma and shat in its coffee.

The wife is finishing her PhD soon. She's getting it in nursing/diabetes research. Whe she does, she'll be looking at jobs. I hope that search leads her to Seattle, but I'm afraid that the generally healthy lifestyle of Seattle will mean I end up in some craphole like Birmingham, AL or Shreveport, LA.

I heartly recommend Austin or ATX as Grump likes to call it. It a fun place and nice weather (as so much as I have seen)

As far as moving between states I just jumped from Cali to Tex and I was dropping my resume and doing Phone interviews (worst kind of interviews) and was having a tuff time when my job decided to allow me to keep my Cali pay and move me out to Houston. Now I'm living the relax country living, in the middle of a major metro area. I dig Texas grubb! Also I'm close enough to get down to a Austin Slapt -n- tickle.

Tell your boss what I did, I really enjoy my job my wife wants to move to X, is there any way I can move with my job? It's not going to hurt anything, or maybe they can keep you in the company but have to trade up jobs (if the company is big enough.)

Only thing bad about doing that for you is the cost of living factor, moving to Texas was like recieving a 30% raise for me.

Wow. Looks like $300k can get you a really charming little 2br/2ba house in the middle of the Capitol Hill district now. $300k doesn't get you crap around here unless you want to live in the hood.