I feel a lot of people here see this as a issue of absolutes: either living in the middle of Manhattan or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are certainl

I feel a lot of people here see this as a issue of absolutes: either living in the middle of Manhattan or in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There are certainly intermediary points. I think the major issue is that very large corporations (think Google/Apple) have no major objective reasons to stay in such an expensive location. Or at least they don't all have a reason to be all at the same place.