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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreyLord" data-source="post: 8471838" data-attributes="member: 4348">They did go to nowhere though, at least in part.  They went to Atlanta, and to New Zealand, and even Texas and Utah for filming.   Though Hollywood is still central, or at least known as the hub of it, many film companies have found cheaper horizons to film and base in.With tech, it's been moving out of California as well.  They have little silicon valleys in several other states now, normally places that initially (though the prices are now going up to where California is slowly but surely) had lower prices for building costs and where their employees could afford housing and the cost of living.It's easier today than ever before.  Why recruit locally when you can recruit world-wide via the internet.  You have a much broader scale of employees which offer a far greater availability of talent.  Paizo already recruits out of state from what I can tell, and the only reasons to stay in Washington is because the owners already have residences there and they can try to leech talent from WotC.  WotC isn't as much in bed with them anymore (so not as strong a need to try to get talent from there, plus, there's a whole world out there), and though residences are there, they could sell those places and buy 20 houses of equal or bigger size in a much less expensive area.  The big one though is to draw more talent I'd imagine, which is one reason tech has moved out of California in many areas.  No one wants to live out of their car in the Google parking lot (even if you can shower and do all you need at the Google offices).  Being able to draw talent from everywhere and have cheap building and location costs is a pretty big thing.  In addition, having employees that are happy because they can afford to own a house or apartment is actually very beneficial to workplace productivity.  Making it so that this could be done via telework (also an option) or affordability because of the local area would seem to work better for businesses in the long run.</blockquote>

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