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Likewise there is a lot of US talent that wants to work in some place that isn't the Bay Area.

• Spooky23 6y ago
  That statement often gets eyerolls on HN because there's a very high concentration of users in a few specific places! The weird thing is that all of the players have significant people investments outside of the US. These often start as support and maintenance operations but often grow into more over time. It's legitimately surprising to me that companies don't "offshore" to Cincinnati, Minneapolis or Tampa. IBM used to have success doing that, for example. Defense contractors too, although obviously there is a political and a "be close to the customer" element to having engineers next to an air force base.