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I mean, I strongly encourage all people who, when presented with the option of getting a very good deal on an expensive and valuable thing, to take it. In equi

I mean, I strongly encourage all people who, when presented with the option of getting a very good deal on an expensive and valuable thing, to take it. In equilibrium, you'd expect someone's programming skillset not to massively drop in value because they moved slightly far away in essentially the same legal jurisdiction. Until we reach that equilibrium, there is money waiting to be collected by firms who hire American engineers to work remotely.

afiori 7y ago
In my understanding when you move away from hot-spots like San Francisco it is not your skill that loses value, but you that lose power in asking for an higher salary. Also it is not that devs in SF are especially good; I would guess that the distribution of skill is power law (specifically the number of devs in the global n-th percentile as a function of the total number of devs in the hiring pool) and it might be argued that the competitions is counterbalancing any positive effect of that. In the end it is a position of which job market do you want to be in.