> There seems to be this attitude in the Midwest that lower CoL justifies lower salaries, as if there's no need to compensate for lower QoL with money. As a lo

> There seems to be this attitude in the Midwest that lower CoL justifies lower salaries, as if there's no need to compensate for lower QoL with money. As a local Midwesterner, they don't do this because many people here don't want to think their QoL is lower and some will even feign offense that you implied their QoL is any lower than anywhere else. Ironically, this bites them in the ass in wages. Companies don't pay people fairly out here because they don't have to. Most of the locals have convinced themselves that their QoL isn't any lower. Their own employees proudly display their own below-market wages as evidence of why their home is a great place to live, they are essentially negotiating their own wages downward. It's a pure win-win for most companies, why would they want to disrupt that process?