Transfer to a university in a large city or stay?

Question

IT education

There was a similar question recently, but mine is slightly different)
She graduated from the 1st year of the program "Software Engineering" at the branch of KFU. The course was pretty easy and didn't take much time. I entered the specialty consciously, applied to several related areas, until the 11th grade of computer science we did not have at all at school, only at the end I realized it. Now I want to transfer to another university in one of the capitals of the regions of the Russian Federation, because. I want more globality, useful acquaintances, which are easier to get now, a broader outlook on life, so to speak, etc. I understand, of course, that the university will teach little, but I need it due to the fact that the state up to 23 years old, subject to full-time education, accrues social benefits to me. payments on which I now live. Enough for student life. I live in a hostel, I don’t depend on my mother, I even help sometimes, because turns out to hoard.
Over the next 3 years, I plan to decide on a specific IT direction (or decide that I want something else), I want to try a lot of programming, however, what I don’t immediately have is the Web and 1C, they never attract me, I also don’t want sports programming ( it will certainly be useful in terms of solving non-standard tasks, but not as the main thing for me). Therefore, I have a question: which city would you recommend, and universities at the same time? Surely they will answer that Moscow / St. Petersburg, which I have a good attitude towards, but I have never been there). Here, too, Siberian and strongly southern regions are immediately swept aside, life is too outdated in my opinion. I may be able to transfer to top universities, but I doubt that I will be able to stay for a long time.

Answer 1

It is better not to risk and transfer somewhere, but to try to participate in open-source projects remotely, if there is time for this. This will help you choose what you like, and experience will give.

Answer 2

Transfer, go to work as a junior shoemaker in a consulting business. Eat dried mousetraps for the first two years, after graduation, hammer 100+k and have no personal life.
CHOOSE YOUR DESTINY

Answer 3

If this is not a mega-university, which in the country can be counted on the fingers of two hands, there is no point for the sake of university education.
Perhaps for the sake of full-time work (part-time work) in interesting offices in big cities - yes, it makes sense.
But. The work must be FULL. And an office with STRONG specialists. It will be 10 times more efficient than a university.
Are you talking about Novosibirsk?
;)))
It is possible about it in more detail?