[sametmax]

The price are not in the same league as SF, let's not exaggerate. But yeah, the salaries are low compared to the US. I had several proposal to make 5 times what I currently make.

However, money is not everything. Living is France is very sweet, and the US lifetyle is peculiar. Also, I'm currently an independent dev, and the salary implied I signed a 5 years contract. That's a lot of constraints for me.

But yeah, compared to the US, dev are not well valued here. And you should see in Spain...

[blubb-fish]

s/he's talking about the ratio between salary and costs being similar to those in bay area.