Better tech industry Dallas vs Austin (best, cost, state, place)
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If you're in programming or telecommunications. Dallas is better.
If you're into design or innovation, Austin is better.
^ This! Also jobs aside because one could secure a good tech job in either the cost of living is becoming a factor in Austin that little city is becoming particularly pricey.
Just wanted to mention I was looking in indeed for, "system administrator", "network administrator", "help desk".
In Dallas I got twice as much result in every search...
Just wanted to mention I was looking in indeed for, "system administrator", "network administrator", "help desk".
In Dallas I got twice as much result in every search...
Well, DFW is larger. I think many of the posters saying Austin with little else added are doing so because Austin is stereotypically the tech city of Texas (excluding Oil related), since the Tech industry is a larger proportion of the whole. That said, I believe DFW has a larger Tech industry in absolute (I know I read an article saying it had the most Tech workers in Texas), but it makes up a much smaller share of the whole.
It's useful to define tech. And some types tend to locate far away from other types.
A "help desk" is typically somewhere with cheap, available labor, not in the well-known tech capitals.
Device manufacturing also goes to cheaper places, with power costs often playing a bigger role, and shipping costs being a factor.
Data centers go for cheap power (the biggest nodes) and proximity to data sources (when necessary or useful).
The tech capitals tend to have the programming, creative content, main offices, and so on.
Some of the "capitals" stuff is increasingly offshored or offstated for cost.
Then there's startups. Kudos to this thread for not overdoing that one. It's a component, and while a large percentage is in the San Francisco Bay area it's also broader based than where those companies will end up as they grow.
And some fields are really tied to other industries. Every major firm has an IT department.
And what is tech really? Some lists include biotech. My area likes to add aircraft engineering and even manufacturing. Regional chambers of commerce tend to link to whatever list defines "tech" in the way that makes them look the best.
"Tech" is such a broad term. If we are talking software start-ups per capita: Austin.
Anything in manufacturing: Dallas by far.
Also, pay in Dallas will be higher(speaking from experince) and COL lower.
Just wanted to mention I was looking in indeed for, "system administrator", "network administrator", "help desk".
In Dallas I got twice as much result in every search...
That is because Dallas is a MUCH bigger market than Austin. In sheer numbers, it will have more opportunities, also Dallas has more corporations so more of those lower end tech functions.
Tech in Austin is much more on the start up side, later stage small companies, and semi-conductors (manufacturers and supplies). Very different places, for what you are looking for Dallas is better, also try Houston.
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