Want to move from Dallas to Chicago

[emathias]

Originally Posted by SmartGXL

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There is a lot of IT employment in the Loop as well, but it is fiercely competitive; I mean like, people will actively try to sabotage you, level of competitive.

I've worked in IT in the Loop for 15 years and I've never seen anyone actively sabotage someone. It is undoubtedly competitive to get jobs down here because many of the jobs are globally competitive, but if individuals were actively sabotaging others, they would find themselves on the outside pretty quickly anyplace I've worked (and I've worked a number of places you've undoubtedly heard of).

I've seen people get thrown under the bus, but it was never sabotage, it was just refusing to protect them from a bad decision gone wrong. There's a big difference between allowing people to suffer the consequences of poor decision-making and actively sabotaging them.

[aragx6]

Originally Posted by SmartGXL

But, I can never pull the trigger, I am worried that when I get there, I will realize that the grass isnt always greener and then miss Chicago (I have been here for 12 years). I work in IT, and my employer will allow me to transfer there.

If you have employment already lined up I say do it!! The worst that could happen is that you stay a year, hate it and move home. But best case scenario you could find a place you love. Everyone is happy in different places and if you think that might be Dallas you owe it to yourself to try!

[Moey91]

I wish I could give a good review, but I grew up in South Chicago, and it just keeps getting more and more expensive. Once you move to the suburbs, you rarely visit the Grand City of Chicago. In fact, if you check the census you will see more people are actually leaving Illinois altogether. Your best bet (if you dont mind this cold weather) is to buy something in Indiana and drive into Chicago everyday.

[emathias]

Originally Posted by Moey91

I wish I could give a good review, but I grew up in South Chicago, and it just keeps getting more and more expensive. Once you move to the suburbs, you rarely visit the Grand City of Chicago. In fact, if you check the census you will see more people are actually leaving Illinois altogether. Your best bet (if you dont mind this cold weather) is to buy something in Indiana and drive into Chicago everyday.

You talk like moving to the suburbs is inevitable. It's not necessarily true that because you got priced out of the city that the O.P. is or would be. Particularly if he's in I.T. - among my IT coworkers about half live in the city just over half of us live in the city, with the remainder living in the west or northwest suburbs.