There is a cost-benefit tradeoff to every decision. Analyse the tradeoff, and make your decision. Less glibly, it might be worthwhile to target companies who a

There is a cost-benefit tradeoff to every decision. Analyse the tradeoff, and make your decision. Less glibly, it might be worthwhile to target companies who already exist in SV/Seattle. I find it hard to believe that Facebook (the example given in the article) forced its engineers to accept a 50% pay cut to go to the Vancouver office.