There are 20 metro areas in the US with a population over 3 million people.<p>What would it take to get the big players in tech, say, the 10 biggest companies by market cap or # of people employed, to open up satellite offices in all (or even half!) of those metros, employing, say, 100-500 people.<p>These companies all have satellite offices - some of them are even growing those satellite offices. Every one of these companies has offices in the bay area, Seattle, and NYC. Some have offices in Colorado, LA, Austin, and beyond. They&#x27;ve proven it can work - so why not double down on that strategy, instead of incurring the exponentially growing costs of keeping talent in the bay area?<p>This would be a huge win for all parties involved.<p>Employees get some choice over what climates and cultures they want to live in, and don&#x27;t have to worry about family or other ties that keep them in a specific geographic reason.<p>Employers get access to talent that isn&#x27;t willing to relocate to the bay area.<p>Employers <i>and</i> employees benefit from employees living in cities with real estate as cheap as 1&#x2F;10th the cost of the bay area.<p>The nation as a whole benefits, because more cities get to reap some of the economic rewards these companies are producing, instead of watching it all concentrate in the wallets of landowners in California.