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Re:Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley ma... by pyuser583 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @05:41PM (#23265769)
The bay area offers a guaranteed supply of qualified employees.

A tech firm in Boise might not be able to hire and Elixir developer at any price.

In SF, there will be employees as long as you have cash. Not so elsewhere.

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Re:Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley ma... by ForHackernews on Friday May 22, 2020 @05:22PM (#23277209)
> A tech firm in Boise might not be able to hire and Elixir developer at any price.

I think the timescale matters. If it became known over a period of years that some company was paying $1mm for Elixir devs in Boise, loads of folks would consider learning Elixir and moving to Boise.

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Re:Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley ma... by talmr on Thursday May 21, 2020 @06:30PM (#23266277)
Also, they might not even want to hire for such a thing.

There are plenty of businesses that don't need to be on fancy infrastructure or use the coolest new language for their backend.

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Re:Zuckerberg says employees moving out of Silicon Valley ma... by pyuser583 on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:16PM (#23267266)
Going old school is hard too. Not many COBOL programmers in New Jearsy.
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