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Why Tech Workers Are Ditching Big Cities for Boise
Idaho’s capital city is seeing an influx of young people as they apply for tech jobs away from big coastal cities amid massive layoffs and a disillusion with Big Tech.
Young people are increasingly exploring roles inland in the US, leaving behind bigger coastal cities while shifting the types of jobs they seek, according to a new report from Handshake, a career site geared toward students and recent grads in the US. Micron is building a$15 billion manufacturing facility expected to open in 2025 there, and two homegrown companies have been acquired by big names: Kount by Equifax in 2021, and TSheets by Intuit in 2017. When they chose majors like computer science four years ago, they expected to follow those before them into a lucrative market with perks at Big Tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and others.
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