> "If you move to <city> with half the CoL, we'll pay you 90% of your current salary". It's an interesting proposition and one that I suspect many would take s

> "If you move to <city> with half the CoL, we'll pay you 90% of your current salary". It's an interesting proposition and one that I suspect many would take seriously. But as an eternal pessimist, I would immediately ask what would happen if I were to lose my job after 6 months living in <city> where my alternatives would be to work for Regional Bank A or Third-Tier Manufacturing Co. B who would not be offering 90% of my previous salary but rather 40%? We stay in the Valley because if, as has happened to me twice already, I wake up and find the company I worked for is now insolvent, I send two emails and find myself another job before lunchtime.