<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>lloyd-christmas</author><text>Not as easily. There is a reason all the banks are based in NYC. Recruitment and networking is as easy as walking across the street.
The same holds for tech. Cost of hiring is extremely high no matter where you are, and it likely goes up even more when trying to recruit
someone to move to the middle of the country. I mean no disrespect to middle america by that statement, I just mean that the probability of
having to uproot is much higher when there are 2 companies in town vs. 200.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>It really raises the question why anyone would put a software company in the Silicon Valley area. You could get cheaper and more experienced people pretty much anywhere in the world for at least 60 - 70% the price.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>My god this is just another universe to me.  I&amp;#x27;ve got 19 years on the clock doing stuff, right now extending the jenkins model to make a usable 2.0 pipeline, for a fortune 50 hiding on the new hampshire seacoast, senior-straddling-principal level and just barely squeaking out a 6 figure salary.  I know it all comes out in the wash, but it just blows my mind how different money is across the country.  or, i am a country bumpkin with absolutely no idea what is really out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>ng12</author><text>Quantity is the problem. I&amp;#x27;m sure there are some blindingly talented developers in New Hampshire but there&amp;#x27;s probably only a few of them and they&amp;#x27;re more than likely gainfully employed by a company that appreciates their value. Hiring an engineer for 60% of the price doesn&amp;#x27;t help when you can only fill a third of your headcount.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mrweasel</author><text>It really raises the question why anyone would put a software company in the Silicon Valley area. You could get cheaper and more experienced people pretty much anywhere in the world for at least 60 - 70% the price.</text></item><item><author>digitalsushi</author><text>My god this is just another universe to me.  I&amp;#x27;ve got 19 years on the clock doing stuff, right now extending the jenkins model to make a usable 2.0 pipeline, for a fortune 50 hiding on the new hampshire seacoast, senior-straddling-principal level and just barely squeaking out a 6 figure salary.  I know it all comes out in the wash, but it just blows my mind how different money is across the country.  or, i am a country bumpkin with absolutely no idea what is really out there.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level</title><url>https://triplebyte.com/software-engineer-salary</url></story>