[dodobirdlord]

> Spend $1M in St. Louis and move 100 employees out of SF.

~100/100 SF Google engineers would change teams if they received a mandate that their team was relocating to St. Louis (or basically anywhere). Anyone who couldn't arrange to change teams would quit.

[onion2k]

The fact that Google has 70 locations around the world, including 26 around the US, indicates that some Google employees are happy to work outside of SF.

[dodobirdlord]

Yes, but not a significant number of the ones living in SF. The parent comment was suggesting to "move 100 employees out of SF", which is clearly not happening. There are 70 locations around the world that these people could theoretically work and they have chosen SF. I'm sure pretty much every person working at each of those 70 locations was hired to work at that location. I'm am a bit appalled by the shittiness of the viewpoint expressed by the original comment, that the solution to lots of people wanting to live and work in high-demand areas is to force them out by moving their jobs somewhere they don't want to live. There are a lot of great reasons to want to live in a global hub city and work at a centralized office instead of working at a satellite office in Amarillo or Sioux Falls.