I see your point. There are more factors than talent being different in the Bay Area I think. I work for a Bay Area start-up in the Netherlands. They opened the

I see your point. There are more factors than talent being different in the Bay Area I think. I work for a Bay Area start-up in the Netherlands. They opened their office here for a specific talent. This talent can be found in the Bay Area too, and they can pay the salaries there too but the employees in the Bay Area don't stay that long compared to here. For the company this is a big issue because you keep bleeding out know how. So the reason they came here was a combination of the talent, affordabile salaries (100-150k for staff level), and employee loyalty. We had only 1 person left from a team of 25 people in 6 years while half of the people in the Bay Area office is left. Give us 40 holiday days, 40 hour work week and a decent salary we will stay.