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	[quote name="Tales from the Bubble"][quote name="arnaudh"]Do you really think paying me twice my SF-based company's salary is going to motivate me to relocate to a Dakota or Wyoming or Oklahoma? Fuck no.[/quote]Not sure about double, but I've certainly read about offers being fairly competitive to entice workers <i>from</i> Cali. As-is their current salary could easily outright <i>buy</i> a place in OK, ND, SD, WY within a couple years. Add in a signing bonus, and that seems like being put on easy street to me. [quote name="calibrated"]Guy working in tech in Silicon Valley here. Unless a company was willing to pay me enough to let me retire early[...][/quote]Somebody, who's likely, getting paid <i>twice or more</i> the national average doesn't have it good enough already. Honestly, I'm not sure <i>how</i> they expect to retire given the current situation with cost of living always going to eat earnings. [quote name="AuntieSocial"]Midwestern living is literally my childhood nightmare. Been there, done that, have the <b>PTSD</b> to prove it. The only way I'd even be able to consider it [...] Get in, get filthy stinking rich and get out [/quote]LITERALLY, MY FIBRO IS TRIGGERING AS I PONDER LIVING WITHIN MY MEANS Might not be pretty when the current crop of 'rock star' programmers face the reality that they are expendable for new grads/visa workers. [/quote]