The obsession companies have with location varied comp is irrational.* The only solution is to arbitrage by living in a high comp area that is not terrible. The

The obsession companies have with location varied comp is irrational.* The only solution is to arbitrage by living in a high comp area that is not terrible. There are second order benefits (opportunity etc) from living in those areas which you get for free; we have to use them. If it were a “nobody wants to live there” comp, I would completely understand. Supply and demand. But is London really ~twice as bad as Brighton? My lungs agree, but surely that’s not what the market thinks? Pay people double to live on the South Pole, not San Francisco. * Perhaps it is a rational reaction from companies to an irrational behaviour of the labour market, where the majority of devs expect it and get offended if you don’t. Fine. Whatever it is, it’s “free money”.