By meetup I meant smaller ones like on meetup.com.<p>The meetup I was talking about only 7 of us were there. Sometimes it&#x27;s 20, sometimes it&#x27;s 5. Of which 2 mentioned their companies had open positions and the third gave another person at the meetup an interview (this is what I went to: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;NottinghamProgrammers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.meetup.com&#x2F;NottinghamProgrammers&#x2F;</a>).<p>In Nottingham, a fairly small city, there&#x27;s a different meetup every week aimed towards programmers&#x2F;designers&#x2F;web centric people, almost twice a week now. In SF there will be a different technical meetup twice or 3 times a day. They&#x27;re social things as well as technical talks.<p>Also, I can practically 100% guarantee there will be a bunch of companies near you, right now, that need a junior programmer, within 30 miles of your town. They&#x27;ll just be mainly Java or PHP jobs. If you want to be cutting edge, you know what you&#x27;ve got to do, move to SF.