They're not just behind on paying, they straight up stopped giving the MAP grant last year which had paid about 30% of my undergrad costs at state school. If I wanted to go to college now I would have had to move out of Illinois until I had residency in another state. Student loans won't even cover state school costs.
Free babysitting help is worth a lot, but depending on your wife's career it still might make financial sense to move. If you're in the Chicago area like most people in Illinois, Indiana is doing great(for the Midwest), and Michigan's economy is still way better than Illinois. Madison is a tech hotspot and a great place to raise a family too.
Two out of three software companies I interviewed at in Illinois shuttered their offices in the state in the last two years. The companies that are staying are all going downtown. Software jobs are pretty damn rare out in the suburbs and it was definitely a bunch of 'take what you can get' shittily run companies because they could be.
Free babysitting help is worth a lot, but depending on your wife's career it still might make financial sense to move. If you're in the Chicago area like most people in Illinois, Indiana is doing great(for the Midwest), and Michigan's economy is still way better than Illinois. Madison is a tech hotspot and a great place to raise a family too.
Two out of three software companies I interviewed at in Illinois shuttered their offices in the state in the last two years. The companies that are staying are all going downtown. Software jobs are pretty damn rare out in the suburbs and it was definitely a bunch of 'take what you can get' shittily run companies because they could be.