[omscs99]

I don’t get why money is so concentrated in NYC and SV

Why are people willing to pay more to get you to move to those areas? It just seems really weird, like there’s some man behind the curtain pulling strings to concentrate people in the above metro areas

[kelnos]

Because that's where the businesses and business connections are. It's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem. NYC & SV are successful business hubs because they are successful business hubs. Sure, they both had to start somewhere, there's no guarantee of their continued dominance, and that's not to say other business hubs can't come into their own, but it's going to be an uphill battle for new locales wanting to attract talent.

The pandemic & work-from-home made people realize that these hubs aren't really as crucial to business success as people thought they were, but there's still a lot of institutional inertia (not to mention shitty companies requiring employees to return to office for no real reason aside from managerial power trips).

[Izikiel43]

Because there is money there, it's a virtuous cycle. NYC with wall street and tech, SV with VCs and tech. It's the place to be for those things, which makes it the place to be for those things, which brings more money in for those things, repeat.

[bsder]

> I don’t get why money is so concentrated in NYC and SV

For the same reason that Detroit was the technical hub 100 years ago.

Smart people congregating leads to more smart people congregating.