> They don't much care about quality of life (or lack thereof) for regular employees. But many talents do stay in the Bay Area and many startups grew to become

> They don't much care about quality of life (or lack thereof) for regular employees. But many talents do stay in the Bay Area and many startups grew to become giants too. So, I'm not sure it's a one-sided decision by the wealthy. And I'm not sure about now but before 2010, very few people outside of the Bay Area knew how to build distributed systems. Case in point, IBM tried to build an auction system to compete with eBay's, and they couldn't figure out why eBay could support such a large throughput with subsecond latency. And in the first few years since http://highscalability.com http://highscalability.com launched, most of the shares came from the companies in the Bay Area.