[noonespecial]

I'm actually half inclined to pay more for the West Coaster. Why? He's got better friends.

Sure its an intangible, and I might indeed be crazy (or have a bad case of selction bias from previous contacts) but I imagine a guy in an office in Palo Alto swirling around in his aeron and asking the guy behind him about how to X and getting an answer in 30 seconds. I imagine the mid-westerner embarking on a 20 minute google session to find out the same. They both had equal skill when they started, but the mid-westerner ended up costing more at a lower rate.