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Why do developers who could work anywhere flock to the world’s most expensive cities?
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Politicians and economists [lament][10] that certain alpha regions — SF, LA, NYC, Boston, Toronto, London, Paris — attract all the best jobs while becoming repellently expensive, reducing economic mobility and contributing to further bifurcation between haves and have-nots. But why don’t the best jobs move elsewhere?
Of course, many of them can’t. The average financier in NYC or London (until Brexit annihilates London’s banking industry, of course…) would be laughed out of the office, and not invited back, if they told their boss they wanted to henceforth work from Chiang Mai.
But this isn’t true of (much of) the software field. The average web/app developer might have such a request declined; but they would not be laughed at, or fired. The demand for good developers greatly outstrips supply, and in this era of Skype and Slack, there’s nothing about software development that requires meatspace interactions.
(This is even more true of writers, of course; I did in fact post this piece from Pohnpei. But writers don’t have anything like the leverage of software developers.)
Some people will tell you that remote teams are inherently less effective and productive than localized ones, or that “serendipitous collisions” are so important that every employee must be forced to the same physical location every day so that these collisions can be manufactured. These people are wrong, as long as the team in question is small — on the order of handfuls, dozens or scores, rather than hundreds or thousands — and flexible.
I should know: at [HappyFunCorp][11], we work extensively with remote teams, and actively recruit remote developers, and it works out fantastically well. A day in which I interact and collaborate with developers in Stockholm, São Paulo, Shanghai, Brooklyn and New Delhi, from my own home base in San Francisco, is not at all unusual.
At this point, whether it’s a good idea is almost irrelevant, though. Supply and demand is such that any sufficiently skilled developer could become a so-called digital nomad if they really wanted to. But many who could, do not. I recently spent some time in Reykjavik at a house Airbnb-ed for the month by an ever-shifting crew of temporary remote workers, keeping East Coast time to keep up with their jobs, while spending mornings and weekends exploring Iceland — but almost all of us then returned to live in the Bay Area.
Economically, of course, this is insane. Moving to and working from Southeast Asia would save us thousands of dollars a month in rent alone. So why do people who could live in Costa Rica on a San Francisco salary, or in Berlin while charging NYC rates, choose not to do so? Why are allegedly hardheaded engineers so financially irrational?
Of course there are social and cultural reasons. Chiang Mai is very nice, but doesn’t have the Met, or steampunk masquerade parties or 50 foodie restaurants within a 15-minute walk. Berlin is lovely, but doesn’t offer kite surfing, or Sierra hiking or California weather. Neither promises an effectively limitless population of people with whom you share values and a first language.
And yet I think there’s much more to it than this. I believe there’s a more fundamental economic divide opening than the one between haves and have-nots. I think we are witnessing a growing rift between the world’s Extremistan cities, in which truly extraordinary things can be achieved, and its Mediocristan towns, in which you can work and make money and be happy but never achieve greatness. (Labels stolen from the great Nassim Taleb.)
The arts have long had Extremistan cities. That’s why aspiring writers move to New York City, and even directors and actors who found international success are still drawn to L.A. like moths to a klieg light. Now it is true of tech, too. Even if you don’t even want to try to (help) build something extraordinary — and the startup myth is so powerful today that it’s a very rare engineer indeed who hasn’t at least dreamed about it — the prospect of being  _where great things happen_  is intoxicatingly enticing.
But the interesting thing about this is that it could, in theory, change; because — as of quite recently — distributed, decentralized teams can, in fact, achieve extraordinary things. The cards are arguably stacked against them, because VCs tend to be quite myopic. But no law dictates that unicorns may only be born in California and a handful of other secondary territories; and it seems likely that, for better or worse, Extremistan is spreading. It would be pleasantly paradoxical if that expansion ultimately leads to  _lower_  rents in the Mission.
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为什么可以在任何地方工作的开发者要聚集到世界上最昂贵的城市？
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政治家和经济学家都在[哀嚎][10]某几个阿尔法地区——三番，洛杉矶，纽约，波士顿，多伦多，伦敦，巴黎——在吸引了所有最好的工作的同时变得令人退却的昂贵，减少了经济变动性而增大了贫富差异。但是为什么那些最好的工作不能搬到其他地区呢？
当然，很多都不能。工作在纽约或者伦敦（当然，在英国脱欧毁灭伦敦的银行体系之前）普通的金融从业人员如果告诉他们的老板他们想要以后都在清迈工作，将会在办公室里受到嘲笑而且不再受欢迎。
但是这对(大部分)软件领域不适用。大部分 web/app 开发者如果这样要求的话可能会被拒绝；但是它们至少不会被嘲笑或者被炒。优秀开发者往往供不应求，而且处在 Skype 和 Slack 的时代，软件开发完全可以不依赖物质世界的交互。
(这一切对作家来说更加正确，真的；事实上我是在波纳配发表的这篇文章。但是作家并不像软件开发者一样具有足够的影响力。)
有些人会告诉你远程协助的团队天生比本地团队效率和生产力低下一些，或者那些“不经意的灵感碰撞”是如此重要以致于每一位员工每天都必须强制到一个地方来人为的制造这样的碰撞。这些人错了，只要团队的讨论次数不够多——数量级不过一把、一打或者许多，而不是成百上千——也不够专注。
我应该知道：在 [HappyFunCorp][11] 时，我们广泛的与远程团队工作，而且长期雇佣远程开发者，而结果难以置信的好。我在我三番的家中与斯德哥尔摩，圣保罗，上海，布鲁克林，新德里的开发者交流和合作的一天，完全没有任何不寻常。
目前为止，不管是不是个好主意，但我有点跑题了。供求关系指出那些拥有足够技能的开发者可以成为被称为“数字流浪者”的人，如果他们愿意的话。但是许多可以做到的却不愿意。最近，我在雷克雅维克的一栋通过 Airbnb 共享的房子和一伙不断变化的临时远程工作团队度过了一段时间，我保持着东海岸时间来跟上他们的工作，也把早上和周末的时光都花费在探索冰岛了——但是最后几乎所有人都回到了湾区生活。
从经济层面来说，当然，这太疯狂了。搬到东南亚工作光在房租一项上每月就会为我们省下几千美金。 为什么那些可以在哥斯达黎加挣着三番工资，或者在柏林赚着纽约水平薪资的人们，选择不这样做？为什么那些据说冷静固执的工程师在财政方面如此荒谬？
当然这里有社交和文化原因。清迈很不错，但没有大都会博物馆或者蒸汽朋克化装舞会，也没有 15 分钟脚程可以到的 50 家美食餐厅。柏林也很可爱，但没法提供风筝冲浪或者山脉远足和加州气候。当然也无法保证拥有无数和你一样分享同样价值观和母语的人们。
但是我觉得原因除了这些还有很多。我相信相比贫富之间的差异，还有一个更基础的经济分水岭存在。我认为我们在目睹世界上可以实现超凡成就的极端斯坦城市和无法成就伟大但可以工作和赚钱的平均斯坦城市之间正在生成巨大的裂缝。(名词是从伟大的纳西姆·塔勒布那里偷来的)
(译者注：[平均斯坦与极端斯坦的概念是美国学者纳西姆·塔勒布首先提出来的。他发现在我们所处的世界上，有些事物表现出相当的平均性，大部分个体都靠近均值，离均值越远则个体数量越稀少，与均值的偏离达到一定程度的个体数量将趋近于零。有些事物则表现出相当的极端性，均值这个概念在这个领域没有太多的意义，剧烈偏离均值的个体大量存在，而且偏离程度大得惊人。他把前者称为平均斯坦，把后者称为极端斯坦。][15])
艺术行业有着悠久历史的极端斯坦城市。这也解释了为什么有抱负的作家纷纷搬到纽约城，而那些已经在国际上大获成功的导演和演员仍然在不断被吸引到洛杉矶，如同飞蛾扑火。现在，这对技术行业同样适用。即使你不曾想试着(帮助)构造一些非凡的事物—— 如今创业神话如此恢弘，很难想象有工程师完全没有梦想过它—— _伟大事物发生的地方_正在以美好的前景如梦如幻的吸引着人们。
但是关于这一切有趣的是，理论上讲，它会改变；因为——直到最近——分布式的，分散管理的团队实际上可以获得超凡的成就。 情况对这些团队很不利，因为风投的目光趋于短浅。但是没有任何法律指出独角兽公司只能诞生在加州和某些屈指可数的次级领土；而且似乎，不管结果好坏，极端斯坦正在扩散。如果这样的扩散最终可以矛盾的导致米申地区的房租变 _便宜_那就太棒了！
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