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If your devs are located in a bigger city, you can have an office located in that bigger city. If you have an office in a bigger city, you can recruit easier s
by pimmen 9y ago
If your devs are located in a bigger city, you can have an office located in that bigger city. If you have an office in a bigger city, you can recruit easier since there's more devs in a bigger city.
If your devs are in a bigger city, there's a good chance they went to the bigger university in that bigger city. If you have devs from a bigger university you can more easily recruit from that bigger university.
If your office is in a bigger city, you can have more relevant personell in that bigger city such as sales and marketing. If you have sales and marketing in a bigger city, you can reach the customers in that bigger city. A bigger city has more customers than a smaller city.
If you have your devs in a bigger city, you can recruit devs from different industries in that bigger city. Bigger cities have more industries present, meaning you can bring in devs with different skillsets.
Basically, discouraging devs from living in big cities can be a very bad idea because. Opportunity costs are real costs.
- amyjess 9y agoBig city != HCOL The Dallas metro area is larger than the SF metro area (and so are the individual cities), but Dallas's COL is half as much as SF's. Edit: For that matter, just to ward off the (valid) point that the SF metro area doesn't include most of SV, the Dallas metro area is larger than the SF and SJ metro areas combined. San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward and San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara have 6,172,302 people combined as of the 2010 Census, while Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington has 6,426,214 people.