Network/agglomeration effects are a natural thing for many industries, especially creative/information workers. And while remote tools are improving, it's still

Network/agglomeration effects are a natural thing for many industries, especially creative/information workers. And while remote tools are improving, it's still hard to beat on-site collaboration for coordinating teams. If Google or Amazon or whoever could get enough skilled people to move to random other cities, they would, because that would obviously save them a lot of money, both in salaries and office rent. The fact that, for the most part, they stubbornly stick to pricey tech hubs is itself quite telling.