I'm currently temporarily in a place where people also crowd and salaries are on par with those expensive coastal cities.
I see where they're coming from because it's still somewhat surreal to me, but I want to go home.
Which brings me to another point: there's something off about this. Most of the cost of living compensation appears to address the cost of real estate, which is artificially inflated in the first place.
Why do companies still do that if all they achieve is pumping the local housing prices even more?
