u/Ejboustany

Just turned 32 and my short story is that I moved to the USA/California on a work visa (so I have a 9-5 job). Had a newborn boy and started a side business building custom software that has grown in 2 years to over 10 clients that I have also built a great relationship with.

I am making good money, but with rent, childcare, car lease and expenses I am not able to save a decent amount of money.

I'm originally from the Middle East, where I own a house and have family to help with childcare. The opportunities in the US have helped me grow my business and make great connections. I am planning to move back and focus full-time on my small business and take the risk of making it into something bigger.

Part of me worries I'm walking away from the best market for what I do. Am I crazy for leaving California right when things are working? To give you some context childcare alone is $2,000 per month and rent is $2,700.

I have been building SaaS dashboards in Angular for years. Different role/auth walls, full ecommerce forms, internal complex SaaS systems and all is good. I love it.

The problem is the moment I touch anything public facing, marketing pages, blogs, anything that needs SEO. Google indexes my pages fine, but social previews need workarounds, routing gets weird, nothing feels native. I always feel like it's underperforming. Is Angular SSR actually the answer here, or am I better off using Next.js for anything public and keeping Angular for everything behind a login?