[NeverFade]

> The vast majority of even the developed world is nothing like SF.

For American workers, most tech hubs are SF or very similar to it, in terms of CoL. SF, LA, Seattle, Manhattan, etc.

> it definitely doesn’t sound good to an extrovert

Engineers tend to be introverted.

[saiya-jin]

America (as in US) is cca 5% of the world population. Engineers can be introverted, their managers (and their) not so much.