We moved to Turkey from San Francisco to continue working on our startup
As an outsider, at this point I have no idea why anyone would want to do a startup in SF. I mean, obviously, all the connections and resources are nice, but you are literally burning investor money on $5k&#x2F;mo rent. That&#x27;s absurd.<p>Rent out a house in Austin, Texas for $2k and each of your co-founders can share a room. There&#x27;s investors and as deep a talent pool as you&#x27;ll ever need unless you&#x27;re GoogleAmazon and you need a constant stream of talent to feed your machine.<p>Heck, I live in Houston. I&#x27;m working on a startup idea in .NET Core and Vue. If it ever takes off, it will be extremely easy to find 5-10 .NET developers. Hell, if I ever need another really good senior developer I can poach them for $140k, which is a really good salary here. Aren&#x27;t they paying juniors in SF that much now?<p>If I ever need to hire 500 developers and a few experienced distributing computing PhDs I&#x27;ll be too busy rolling in cash to care. I&#x27;ll just sell my company to someone else and be too busy sailing around the mediterranean to care about talent shortages in Houston.<p>For the record, I live in a 3 bedroom house right near downtown that costs less than a year&#x27;s senior dev salary in SF. Are any of you SF people going to be able to get that, unless you become fantastically wealthy?<p>I&#x27;m not trying to be all sour grapes, it just doesn&#x27;t make sense to me.