I reckon this must mean that there are software engineers in SV that are making serious money. Highly skilled people surely wouldn't stay somewhere into their thirties without a solid middle-class lifestyle (house, 2.5 kids, etc).https://twitter.com/BenLesh/status/1138511871466561536?s=20 …
For some reason, it's still very difficult to find out what you would make in a different location, and on top of that still very difficult to know what that money would buy you if you moved there.