[untog]

There's nothing like the talent in SF

There is. Seriously.

Travel outside of the west coast of the US a little- there are a ton of great developers that are either unwilling or unable (e.g. visas) to relocate to SF.

And you sort of disprove your own point- there are no engineers available in SF because the big companies have hired them all. So surely that means that areas outside of SF have more engineers available, because no large companies are taking them?

[bbrian]

At first I thought he was referring to Ireland with the "Google/Facebook/Amazon/LinkedIn/Zynga" comment -- they're all here too. If you're at a tech event looking for a developer, the response is likely to be a chuckle and "good luck!"

[philjr]

I was. I'm Irish and I live in Dublin, that might change the perspective of my comment. Apologies for the ambiguity