The idea of people who object to this is that they're choosing to live in a cheaper location and they should be able to save the extra money from that. If I bo

The idea of people who object to this is that they're choosing to live in a cheaper location and they should be able to save the extra money from that. If I bought a Kia Rio, would they say "You have lower car expenses compared to other employees, we're going to pay you less because you don't need the money"? Or conversely, if I choose to buy a $150,000 car should I be able to tell Google "Hey you need to pay me more because I have very high car expenses?" That's obviously silly. But if you want to live somewhere that a house costs $2MM, it's your employer's responsibility to foot the bill for it, and if I buy a house in Bentonville AR for 1/10th of the price, my pay gets cut?