A small but not trivial amount of VC capital, but that's not what people are responding to. For somewhere like Seattle or Las Vegas, 50k/year is a reasonable se

A small but not trivial amount of VC capital, but that's not what people are responding to. For somewhere like Seattle or Las Vegas, 50k/year is a reasonable seed round salary. However, most people are just commenting that you're wrong about 50k/year not being livable for most of the country. Almost everywhere, including places like Seattle, 50k/year is what half the households make, so works for an individual salary. It's the vast minority where 50k/year isnt livable for a single person. Of course, that's also partly what people are calling out elsewhere in the thread: high VC spending close to them is about social connections rather than what makes economic sense. I expect that if you had the capital, you could eat most VC's lunch by just spending everywhere but those hyper expensive areas.