> For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe I think the 'equall

> For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe I think the 'equally good' is the part that I am really unsure of. From personal experience, the difference in competence of my coworkers when I moved from a medium-sized US city to the Bay Area was massive, and I had been working at one of the better/well-respected employers in my old geography. There's also some research I've seen that supports this on a global level -- see eg https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814646116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814646116