Re: [OT] Places for a programmer to live?

Devin Mullins <twifkak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Franfurt / Main in Germany seems a pretty good match:

I'll provide a little about DC, in fairness to y'all, and maybe as a
template.
1. The housing market here is ridiculously expensive. I think it might
be going down a *little* soon, but yikes, it's high.


Same there although in Germany it's more common to rent instead of buying.

2. It's probably because high tech jobs are in high supply here. Gov't
contracting is the name of the game, and while you probably won't be
using Agile methodologies to build the Next Big Thing, you'll at least
have a fairly well-paying and steady job.

SAP is around the corner and there are a lot of banks - a lot jobs with good pay.

3. Weather's not fantastic. Temperate climates. Warm for its latitude
because of some sort of wind thing. Generally pretty cloudy during the
Spring/Fall, though, due to its proximity to the water.

Weather is quite ok I'd say: it's fairly friendly (certainly more friendly than in Paderborn where I live) and you have a *lot* nice countryside around it. If you love motorcycling that's definitely a plus.

4. Traffic sucks. Combine that with the fact that you can only afford
to live in the boonies and you've got a recipe for un-fun.

Public transportation is above average - and you're close to the biggest airport in Germany (and one of the biggest in Europe I believe).

5. Entertainment is pretty decent, if you don't mind the traffic it
takes to get there. We've got the Kennedy Center in DC, Nissan
Pavillion out west in Warrenton, VA, all sorts of jazz, bars, etc.
and DC is obviously a pretty popular place for artists to include as
part of a national/regional tour. We've got fantastic museums and art
galleries, many of which are free.

There's a lot of cultural activities going on (Staatsoper, fairs of all kinds) and also subcultural activities (I'm going to a trash film festival each year for example).

6. There's a very good variety of decent restaurants, and some very
good ones. Of course, for any genre X of food, there's apparently
some city Y that produces better X. Oh well. :)

I would believe that you got plenty of good restaurants although I'm no expert for Frankfurt.

7. It's a big, suburban region. You're not going to see any "sense of
belonging" to the DC area, in people. You're not going to find that
'cept for probably way in the city (where it's urban), or way out
(where it's rural, in which case you'll find the annual Nokesville
festival, or whatever).

Same there. Plus there's a huge US community there because of the Army (although I believe this is going to change a bit in the future).

8. I may be full of it. 

Unlikely (yet). :-)

Kind regards

   robert

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