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<p>Anything can be offshored if it is not something that the US government would consider a threat to US security. If you don’t work on classified software, you should at least consider that you are competing with people all over the world.</p>
<p>There is a school of thought that some software jobs are best left in the US because they are closer to the sources of capital (e.g. startups located in Boston, the SF bay area, NYC, Atlanta, and a few other places where the angel investors and venture capitalists are). Another school of thought says software jobs should be in or near locations with top US computer science or software engineering departments. So, you might want to try to get a job in one of those locations.</p>