> I mean this in as polite a way as possible, but why wouldn't established companies like Stripe just fuck off to another city entirely?
People have mentioned the dual-income problem, but even without that, people have friends, and schools, and communities, and lives that they've built up where they live. When I moved cross country, it took two years after we arrived to develop our first close friends, and probably five years before we felt that we were as connected to our new home as we were to the one we left.
Moving across town doesn't disrupt these connections and communities for your employees, but moving across the state or country does.
People have mentioned the dual-income problem, but even without that, people have friends, and schools, and communities, and lives that they've built up where they live. When I moved cross country, it took two years after we arrived to develop our first close friends, and probably five years before we felt that we were as connected to our new home as we were to the one we left.
Moving across town doesn't disrupt these connections and communities for your employees, but moving across the state or country does.