Would you all move your family to Seattle for a job at a software giant like Microsoft or Amazon?

As long as it's a promising job that won't end within a year or so, like a contract and the pay is adequate to support a move like that. Of course I'm coming from across the country, so distance is a bigger factor.

I would move to Seattle for way less than that!

What if you have a large family and it a huge move?

@techleadpro I dont, and it isnt.

Haha! Good point!

For me, it would depend on family and stage of career. Of course, if it did not work out you could always go back.

Am 27, no kids, no waifu, hell yes i'd move.

I live in a small town in NH, and am making about 20-30k less than I would in Boston. it depends on the person... I grew up there, don't like the city, love my house and some things just aren't worth it (to me)

AWS security wanted me to move to Virginia for a year, after that it could have been anywhere. My fiancée is working on a PhD. I found a job I like more here.

If you are fleeing The Ninth Circle of Hell, a couple of Manson followers stuck in the summer of 1969, a neighbour who blasts Courtney Love 24/7, and stage III syphilis, then do it. Otherwise, no fucking way. Seattle is like Queen Alexandra, consort of Edward VII, great-grandfather of the current Queen. Queen Alexandra was said to dazzle upon first meeting but to disappoint upon further acquaintance.