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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by theflyinghorse on Monday December 07, 2020 @01:53PM (#25335629)
It seems that wages are a lot lower in lower cost of living areas. So what makes it that a developer in SF is much more expansive than the one in, let's say, Chicago?

Or let's flip it around, move the same developer from Chicago to SF and they will suddenly make more money.

I can only imagine that cost of living is the main factor. Naturally there will be a tiny minority of truly brilliant builders and engineers, but we are not talking about them as they are outliers.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by bluedino on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:07PM (#25336643)
>> So what makes it that a developer in SF is much more expansive than the one in, let's say, Chicago?

One is more likely to have more experience with startups/trendy new tech.

The other could probably work with it, but the other one already has.

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