> Cost of living overall is sky high. It is, but so are salaries, even in non tech fields. I have a friend in town from Atlanta and I was explaining the benefi

> Cost of living overall is sky high. It is, but so are salaries, even in non tech fields. I have a friend in town from Atlanta and I was explaining the benefit of this to her last night: a lot of big-purchase items have retail prices set at a national level, so things like bicycles, television, musical instruments, etc., feel a lot less expensive here than they do in other places.