Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the most expensive cities?
Because there is no critical mass to &quot;work from anywhere&quot;.<p>Amazon&#x2F;Facebook&#x2F;Google&#x2F;Microsoft doesn&#x27;t let its workers work from home in general. A lot of tech companies don&#x27;t as well. So moving to CheapSmallTown means when losing the job still having to go back to ExpensiveTechHub to network and find a new job. So might as well stay in ExpensiveTechHub just to be sure.<p>Imagine if all those large tech companies and others allowed working from home as a default. I think that would be a sizeable economic and cultural shift. It might revitalize various part of the country, small cities and towns. It might reduce congestion, real estate prices in coastal cities.<p>I work from home and love it. But yeah I am still living next to a tech hub because chances are if I switch jobs I might not necessarily have a choice of working from home.