[terranstyler]

There is one thing in your post I must particularly disagree with:

> There's absolutely no talent shortage in the Bay Area, provided you can pay (and your ideas are interesting)

I can generalize that "there is no shortage of anything provided you can pay". You can get a BMW in Cuba, a skyscraper in NY and what ever you want where ever you want, it's just much more expensive.

Still, there are shortages and high prices are indicative of that.