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Lots of programmer work for team leader/owner.
Team leader/owner need to do sale works, ie finding investors who pay you upfront (to pay for IT wages) to do games.
The closer, geographical speaking, the team leaders to the investors, the easier it is for them to have projects.
Investors live and work in big city, example SF.
So the team leaders put up studios and office in nearby cities (because of rents). See Silicon Valley and Palo Alto the early history of IT wave.
The bigger the metropolitan area, see SF bay area and Tokyo.
The more software studios situated in the border of them.
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right, but now those outlying towns are nearly as expensive and perhaps some areas more expensive than living in SF due to this. My mother is a MD and my stepfather is also a MD and once my mother graduated medical school and finished her internship in San Francisco in 1990 her and my stepfather decided to move to Fremont from SF because the house prices in SF proper were absurd (for the time), they bought an old 1250 SQ foot house near Ohlone college in Fremont for about 225,000. Today that house is worth 1.7 million, and its really a piece of crap that would cost 75,000 dollars at most in texas or someplace. Its absolutely insane how much their house is worth, its really nothing special at all, nobody outside of the bay area would think the house could be worth more than about 200,000 much less 1.7 million.
Also the traffic today is nuts there now. It could take just as long to drive to SF from fremont as it might to fly from PHX to SFO and get an uber to to see one of these 'investors'. That may be a slight exaggeration, but its not a huge one. My point is the cost of living and doing business is very hard to justify for a small software company living project to project while trying to be stationed in the bay area or LA. LA is probably much more affordable if you are in one of the eastern suburbs, but I am not really familiar with costs of living there like I am for bay area, so I don't know for sure.