From: Josh Charles Date: 2005-09-21T22:20:57+09:00 Subject: Re: [OT] Places for a programmer to live? On 9/20/05, Devin Mullins wrote: > Where do you recommend to live? Feel free to provide just a city name, > or to go into detail. When I say "for a programmer," I'm mainly > referring to the existence of programming jobs, but other aspects, such > as the existence of ?UGs, proximity to nerdy attractions, etc. could > play a part. Also feel free to just tell me some places to look for > ideas, and then tell me to Get to Googlin'. :) I live in Kansas City, and it's pretty nice. It could be beautiful, but the city officials are doing much to help get it back together. We have more foutains here than any other city in the world, except Rome, an they really are quite nice. The sports atmosphere is great (if you're a football or college basketball fan). Programming wise, we seem to be behind the adoption curve. I worked for a firm last year that was still developing (new) web apps in ASP. Some of the web developing firms are run by designers that started out making static websites and are now looking for more dynamic solutions, so there is a great oppurtunity there. Schoolwise Kansas City public schools suck, but the schools in the suburbs are pretty great. I'm attending the University of Missouri - Kansas City to get a music degree, and that is pretty good. UMKC is hit and miss with the other programs, though. Some are good, some are not. There is alot of things to do on the weekends, but it'll require some creativity usually. I don't do the whole social thing, though, so I'm can't really talk about that.