Simple, you'd never be able to hire the talent from the cities with the highest concentration of the best talent. (this is not to say there isn't amazing talen

Simple, you'd never be able to hire the talent from the cities with the highest concentration of the best talent. (this is not to say there isn't amazing talent anywhere else, but not paying market rate for SF/NYC based engineers is an easy way to never be able to access the largest chunk of the best engineers in the country)