Of course they won&#x27;t be. If anyplace else in the country had the volume of jobs that SV had, it would have equivalent salaries. But it&#x27;d also have roughly equivalent cost of living. It&#x27;s almost a certainty that you will make less (cue anecdata), but cost of living will almost certainly bring you out on top.<p>In my area unless you want to be one of maybe two &quot;IT guys&quot; in an office, there&#x27;s really only 8-10 employers within a half hour commute. There is no shortage of turnover or people bouncing around between them as positions open up. Sure it&#x27;s not like SV where you can probably swing a dead cat and hit someone looking to hire a Go ninja rockstar, but there are plenty of coding jobs, especially if you&#x27;re familiar with Java or C#.