On an absolute scale no. However my wife's salary tripled when moving back for the same position. I moved from Knoxville, TN which is experiencing a large hous

On an absolute scale no. However my wife's salary tripled when moving back for the same position. I moved from Knoxville, TN which is experiencing a large housing crunch due to lots of speculative real estate investments. I've moved to a comparable sized city that is not the Bay area.