The pandemic accelerated the tech industry’s exodus out of its ancestral homeland of Silicon Valley. The shift to remote work gave legions of techies the option of working elsewhere, and the preposterous cost of Bay Area housing largely kept the next generation from taking their places in San Francisco and San Jose.
Big cities like Austin and Denver had been establishing themselves as America’s next-gen tech hubs for years and were ready to fill that void. However, as the industry and its high-paying jobs took root, housing costs shot up there just as they had in California a generation before. The typical home value in both of those cities is now in the mid-$600,000s, according to Zillow.
But greener pastures abound.
If you’re planning to launch your own career in a high-tech field, the following hubs are emerging as tomorrow’s most important industry hotspots. Not only will you be able to live better for less than you could in the tech cities that are already saturated, but you’ll get in on the ground floor of the industry’s best emerging opportunities.
