When I make this argument to tech companies in Vancouver (where typically compensation is an 80% discount from right across the border in Seattle), the response

When I make this argument to tech companies in Vancouver (where typically compensation is an 80% discount from right across the border in Seattle), the response is usually that I can move if I want to. Couldn't she just have gone and become CEO at a different company if she wanted to make more, like the rest of us do?