This. It's pretty annoying that whenever there are posts about salary on HN, a lot of people from SF/BayArea start complaining about how their already super inflated salaries are not inflated enough and should be higher because the top 3 largest tech companies in the world pay higher salaries.
If you are one of those people, then please stop complaining and just go get a job with the compensation you supposedly deserve at one of the companies that can afford it.
On the other hand, plenty of startups and their investors insist on being in the Bay area, so I can't really fault employees there that they compare them to the local market. As someone with no desire (and no easy route) to live there, I find this centralization annoying, but startups fueling it IMHO aren't in much of a place to complain.
If you are one of those people, then please stop complaining and just go get a job with the compensation you supposedly deserve at one of the companies that can afford it.