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twesterm on 04 December 2009
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Slimebeast said:
twesterm said:

So I was reading this morning about one of the reasons Pandemic was closed was due to SoCal's cost of living/development and that got me thinking-- why are there still so many game development studios in California?

The only two reasons I can come up with are that they are already there and there are already so many people there.  Other than that though, I can't come up with anything.

Just think about it, salaries in Texas are probably about $20-30k a year less than a California salary. 

How can that be??

I fought the US had a unified economy.

It varies state by state and varies even more city by city.

For example, the cost of living in California is *vastly* different.  So much so that you can live decently in Texas for $30k/year while you be in near poverty and have to scrimp and save on $30k/year in most California places.

Going even further, I live in the Dallas metroplex in Texas which is usually called DFW (Dallas/Fort Worth) or just Dallas when it's actually like 12 cities.  If you live in Plano (a DFW city) it can get fairly expensive by Texas standards to live there while where I live now, Lewisville, another DFW city, it's incredibly cheap.