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Originally Posted by foatie
People in/from LA never let go of the chance of telling you how much better LA is than everywhere else in the world. Despite the lack of water, high taxes, overall intolerable people, expensive fuel, 24/7 traffic, high cost of living, and big rakes the poker games are pretty good (If you have the roll to live there).
If poker players from Not California weren't so irrationally fearful of high cost of living, poker players from California wouldn't feel as compelled to inject a little rationality into the conversation.
Poker, at least above a certain level, thrives where people are rich enough to afford big losses in big games. That always means high COL and high traffic.
Big corporations not only understand that COL and general desirability vary, but have quantitated it. It comes down to a single percentage factor they use to calculate what it takes to get someone to move from Location 1 to Location 2. IIRC, Vegas to LA is like 1.5. So if you assume BF exiles are rational (which may not be the case), you should understand that poker has to be at least 1.5x better in LA.