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Maybe try moving to another country for life experience? Late 20s with no job obligation is the perfect time to try that if you have the resources and freedom for it. Such adventure also makes it easier to meet people.

It worked for me at least.

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I was actually planning to do some travel this year, but my nice paying job was eliminated late last year followed by some large emergency expenses. I’d still like to do it, but the economic situation looks kind of grim right now.

You could look for a job abroad, heck, even just teaching English, but it is usually not that hard to get hired as a SWE somewhere as long as you can handle a pay cut (which is usually balanced by a lower COL). This really depends on how much obligations you have back home (e.g. debt, house, car, etc...).

I guess I was lucky because I went abroad right after grad school (so I gave my car to my sister and just left the USA for 11 years), but I was about 30 when I left.

Yeah, as long as OP is fine with paycut, they can move into a lot of European or Asian cities with good dating options

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