The short answer is no, no other areas have salaries comparable to NYC and SF (except maybe London), because salaries in those locations are inflated to compensate for the outrageous property prices and generally high cost of living. Now, if you want to talk about effective salaries, my guess is you could maintain a better standard of living on an average developer salary in San Diego than you could in NYC, but I don't know that for certain.
The Ruby community here is excellent - I'm not sure if it's San Diego's long history with Ruby, or excellent leadership, but SDRuby is one of the best user groups I know of anywhere. The overall tech scene here is not as big or "exciting" as SF, but that's not entirely a bad thing either. Employers here are generally pragmatic and focused on building useful and profitable businesses with real business plans and fewer exit strategies. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014, at 12:37 PM, Cameron Barker wrote: Hi all, I am currently a RoR developer based in NYC who is looking to make a move back home to Southern California. I wanted to ask an actually ruby community how the job opportunities are in San Diego and if the salaries are comparable to SF NYC? Thank you! Cameron -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] [1]http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [2][email protected]. For more options, visit [3]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. References 1. http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
