The amount of recruiter spam being sent to people in fly-over country (or anywhere outside the handful of major hubs by companies within those hubs) is based on

The amount of recruiter spam being sent to people in fly-over country (or anywhere outside the handful of major hubs by companies within those hubs) is based on the fact that there is almost no cost to sending those messages, and if one in 10,000 pays off the ROI is still probably fantastic for the recruiting firm. This article is mostly about COL differences and why people may not choose to move, but the premise about the reasons for the volume of recruiting spam is flawed. It's not because "recruiting is hard" (though it is) so much as it can be explained by "sending spam is easy and free".