I guess if you were the kind of company that would hire remote software engineers, then you&#x27;d have very little reason to have the rest of your operation in expensive SF either, so there&#x27;s a weird chicken-and-egg loop there.<p>There seems to be enough money sloshing around that you&#x27;d think someone would be arbitraging it successfully and employing rockstar programmers that live in cheap shacks around the country&#x2F;globe, but apparently for the mainstream that&#x27;s not considered viable.