One thing that seems strange to me as an outsider is how all your tech startups and companies are clustering in areas with very high cost of living. I don&#x27;t know much about the US since I&#x27;m European but I do keep track of stuff around here on HN.<p>I can understand it from employee point of view - large city - big job market and naturally those places are also more desirable. But if you&#x27;re going down the startup route you&#x27;re already going to sacrifice things for a potentially big payout down the road (assuming you have stocks - right ?) which is why I would have no problem relocating to a cheaper&#x2F;less desirable area in order to lower the operational costs and increase the chance of success.<p>Maybe I&#x27;m thinking about it wrong but unless you are doing B2B or direct sales location shouldn&#x27;t matter more than having funds to stay operational&#x2F;becoming profitable ?<p>One explanation I can come up with is that if you are looking for investors instead of profitability it makes sense to be closer to them - but at the same time that kind of feels like perverting incentives.<p>I was under the impression that the costs differences can be huge (2x) between regions - maybe that&#x27;s not the case ?