They&#x27;ve been saying that forever, just like they&#x27;ve been saying &quot;Silicon Valley will suffer a brain drain because people will move away due to the high cost of living.&quot;  In theory it makes sense, but it never happens in earnest.<p>Working in a startup is much, much more fun that working at a big corporation.  I took a paycut several times to go work at startups just because working at a big company where you work on a single API of one of their products gets boring really fast, regardless of the pay.