> And your North American friends do not? Please. It's not even close. Both my current and previous company have substantial percentage of engineering in Mexic

> And your North American friends do not? Please. It's not even close. Both my current and previous company have substantial percentage of engineering in Mexico so I have good visibility into this. Even middle-tier software engineer salary band in Mexico allows for a very comfortable high class life. Whereas the same level engineer in Silicon Valley is crushed by rental costs without not too much left over, and if they also have kids expenses they are barely scraping by.