Very nice analysis!

I would be very interested to see how the number of jobs in each area looks in relation to these data (or even a silly proxy like total population). Many people say “Well don’t live in the middle of Seattle, LA, SF, or NYC then!”, but I feel like this suggestion is a bit myopic. If even 20% of those major urban workers decided to up and move to suburban/rural Illinois, my hunch is they would either quickly overwhelm the entire job market in those areas, or all the remote tech workers would quickly drive up housing prices because their Silicon Valley salary lets them offer double current rent prices and still save money.