Your statement is not false, but if you're into software engineering it's awesome know so many people who are world-class engineers. I've heard from multiple pe

Your statement is not false, but if you're into software engineering it's awesome know so many people who are world-class engineers. I've heard from multiple people that they've grown more in a year of being in SV than the 5 years before. Why? Because a lot of their friends are engineers (Kinda sucks too but...), you casually meet a lot of people working in cool stuff, you go to a lot of really really good meetups, and what you're doing at work is probably only a handful of companies in the world are tackling (at least me and most of my friends are working on stuff like that). Yeah, you can do software from anywhere! But SF/SV is probably one of the best places in the world to do for it.