> If they're willing to move from their home to California for work, it's safe to assume they're willing to move from their home to almost anywhere else for wor

> If they're willing to move from their home to California for work, it's safe to assume they're willing to move from their home to almost anywhere else for work. Not at all: for me personally, California was a bit of the final destination. It's the place where you have the best chance of being at the forefront of technology. And where you have the highest chance of finding your next job if the first one doesn't work out. When I moved away from the East Coast to the Bay Area, it was already clear that it'd be hard finding another job in my field (chip design) if my current company would go under. That company has since gone under and over the past decade, a large part of our circle of friends there now lives here. Talk about Silicon Alleys or Silicon this or that somewhere else is nothing new. I remember such articles in the nineties. I do think things will slow down in general because of Moore's Law being close to the end. But that's going to be a problem for everyone, not just Silicon Valley.