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Yeah, a datacenter hires a few Networking/Sysops people, but not so much programmers, as that is one of those things that isn't quite so location sensitive.

Yup. This is about half of the conversations I have with my family whenever I visit for the holidays.

Probably the same conversations happening in “booming” industrial cities in China. Cheap land, low cost of living...eventually the race to zero gets you and the big players move on.

I can attest to this, I've had multiple family members ask me why I'm not applying to work for the three companies you listed in Des Moines.

Interesting. I suppose we've learned from the past election that pride is pretty damn important. Still, I have to think that, in the long run, the "everyone in the family has steady good-paying jobs" type of pride will be more decisive than the "there's a huge fucking tech company in our state" type of pride.