^this. The $39.50/hr they quote (~80k salary) isn't much for NYC, especially with a family. I make more than that in my small town working remotely for a SF bay area company and I wouldn't move there without ~$125k minimum.

If you factor in the hit or miss quality of public schools and the cost of sending a child to private school, NYC starts to look incredibly expensive. Elementary school tuition can crack $30k, more than many Universities! [1]

[1] http://theschool.columbia.edu/admissions/tuition-financial-a...

You realize that there are a lot of "they" who don't want to spend all of there lives in NowhereVille in the state of NothingEverHappensHere ?

In fact there are many people who select their career exactly because it allows them to move to places like that?

Despite being condescending and smug you are actually agreeing with the person you replied to.

The lack of a physical center to an economy means its participants can live wherever they choose to live, whether that is New York City or, as you so condescendingly put it, "NowhereVille".

There are still many perfectly fine places in the world that people are forced to move away from in order to participate in the tech economy. Getting rid of these barriers will only increase people's freedom to live where they are happiest.

The existence of choice for people who don't want to live in a tech capital of SF and NYC doesn't at all diminish your experience of living in such a place. What's with the misplaced anger?

"can work where they are or where they want to be"

Maybe read the whole thing, if they wanted to move to NYC, that would fall under where they want to be. And that doesn't justify the current environment that you basically must move to these spots to do things, whether you want to or are paid enough to.

“Those who do not read are no better off than those who cannot.”

And there are also quite a lot of people who don't want to pay $2000 a month for a 300 sq.ft. pied-a-terre perched atop a multistory building with no elevator. They like that the nothing that never happens in nowhere central includes loud parties in the adjoining apartment that last until 2 am, people using the stairwells as latrines, trash collector strikes, property crimes, violent crimes, hipster-driven gentrification, people who don't clean up after their pets in public spaces, trust-fund-baby DUIs, routine traffic jams, public transit strikes, and mayoral antics that people will actually watch on television.

Diff'rent strokes, for diff'rent folks. If everybody liked living in the same places, no one could afford to live there.

I'm glad that New York appreciates one of its many business sectors, but I really don't want to live there. But some people do, and they shouldn't have to go to San Francisco or DC Metropolitan Area or New Nowheresville just to get a good job, either.