Is it possible to find a good exit in a less populated area? I don’t want to be near a big city — I want a house and a big yard. But every single job that would be a good career move is in a big city. Do good jobs in small markets exist? How do you find them?

I’ve considered 100% remote roles, but it seems hard to progress in a career if I’m not physically present.

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Define "good job" and "less populated" for us. You could live in a suburb or exurb of a major city and have a lengthy commute, which is a 70-year old method for holding a good job but living in a big house in a less populated area. But is that too near a big city?

Even if you have an eye on cost of living, thus putting NYC and SF and the like out of reach, there are a lot of big, affordable houses and pieces of land near good jobs in smaller cities like Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh is a city of 300k with 8 F500 headquarters. Surely you could get a corp strat exit and a house and yard.

Plano, Texas has a variety of banks with major locations, like Capital One. Plenty of space near there.

You could work for Walmart HQ and set up shop in Arkansas.

There are a lot of options. Do some research.

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Great response with solid examples 👏🏼

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Basically google a list of Fortune 500 companies and their headquarter locations. Copy paste it into a spreadsheet. Filter out the ones in NYC, LA, and so on until you're left with places in areas you like. Then go to the careers website of the remaining companies to see what is available.

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Thanks for the ideas so far. By “good exit” I mean similar or higher salary (currently at $300k TC). By “less populated” I mean I don’t want to be anywhere near SF or NYC.

I would re-think your search parameters: your criteria will severely limit your prospects.

Using COL calculators: 300k in NYC is equivalent to 133k in denver. You are effectively asking to double your salary by keeping the same number in a considerably lower COL market. Using an above example: $180k in Pittsburgh would be more than $300k manhattan, and likely open you up to many director level roles there at F500

Also not sure if your remote work statement is a hard parameter for you or not.

If you just want to avoid SF and NYC, then you can target jobs in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Seattle. Seattle area has Amazon and Microsoft, so getting a 300k job is within reach.

Also Amazons HQ2 in the DC area is hiring like crazy!

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