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Re:The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted by eli_gottlieb on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:43PM (#11664445)
>Could your company not be headquartered in Des Moines, IA? Chattanooga, TN?

Well, some of our largest clients are at MIT and Brandeis Universities, so no, it couldn't. Network effects regarding availability of customers, expertise, and capital are a thing.

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Re:The seeds of the next housing crisis have been planted by toomuchtodo on Monday May 09, 2016 @08:55PM (#11664508)
Then you've got to raise prices to support paying your employees enough to live in high cost locations. If they're not willing to pay rates to support that, then you can't offer the service (or you need to find employees who are willing to work in less than ideal work conditions like excessive commuting on personal time).

Market forces at work.

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