scrubbedexpat099

34F today. well now 29F and dropping.

Not everybody lives on the Front Range, if you look west you can see the Mountains.

Pulaski will be able to tell you all about it, he has a top of the range Stihl Chainsaw and offered to come up and clear a few Mountains.

Tootsfromscotland

Oh brrrrrrrrr, I love the mountains but don't think I'm hardy enough to withstand those temperatures !

scrubbedexpat099

Those are plus temps, I do not like it when there is a minus in front.

And the wind blows.....

petitefrancaise

Austin!
And I think Fidelity have a largish presence here. Loads of tech companies around who all seem to have vacancies. Cheaper than SF/NYC and (sorry Markcst) way, way nicer to live in than Dallas.
Bit hot in the summer but just lovely right now.

Pulaski

No time for tree work at the moment, I have been mowing the grass this afternoon, after I had blown the leaves off it. I thought a final trim a couple of weeks ago would be enough but the grass is still growing. I don't recall mowing grass in November before.

scrubbedexpat099

Grass?

Is that the green stuff underneath the snow?

I did get a MS 170 for limbing.

Currently consuming a very comfortable Double IPA in the Backcountry Brewery in Frisco and a quarter keg to go.

Hanco

What is this snow stuff thou speakest of? I see this not in Georgia

scrubbedexpat099

It is white stuff, thought white stuff might be popular in Georgia?

I drove through Breckenridge today and then watched the coverage on local TV of the first day skiing. You must be desperate to go skiing now, even at 11,500', the highest I was at today, there was very little in the sun, a bit in the trees and the shade.

chesterton_fan

To the OP: I'm a business analyst, looking to do something similar, and currently work in the City as well. (Unfortunately I'm not a dual national, but married to one and currently going through the green card process.)

I'm a little more picky as to location than you -- I'm looking at the Charlotte area as I have friends and family there. Housing is obviously much cheaper than in the biggest cities, and the climate isn't too bad if you can stand the humidity.

Anyway, good luck. Good to see there are a few IT professionals on this board.

Hotscot

Check Dice.com for a baseline

Are there any positions for which you fulfill the requirements?

mrken30

There are a lot of web companies moving into Portland, OR. Weather is much the same as England. People are a bit strange though. I can give you details of a local recruitment company if that helps.

robin1234

I'm still mowing too. Some years I mow till mid December ... And I think I'm maybe seven or eight hundred miles north of you!

Other years the snow and ice is permanently set in by October...

MarylandNed

I have also been mowing this month. I mow with the leaves on the grass. It's much less work.

petitefrancaise

The leaves are about to start falling (again....) here in Austin.
Our grass is still growing as well.
I'm about to go and buy a lawnmower leaf chopping blade for the leaves so that I can compost them and use them on the garden in the spring. Apparently the way to do it is to rake the leaves onto a tarp and mow them on that until they are finely cut and then pop them into a compost bin or chicken wire formed into a cylinder and staked into the ground. Any experience of this?

Pulaski

I used to shred them and collect them into wooden bins or a wire cage, but then I worked out that they rot down quick enough without me wasting time on shredding them. I also have more rotted leaf mulch than I know what do with - upto 120 55gal sacks of compressed leaves, plus a dozen or more leaf piles on a 10'x15' tarp each year if I can be bothered to collect them up rather than blow them into the woods.

Personally I wouldn't run a mower over any tarp I placed any value on!