We're talking about premium developers here. People making $150K/yr or more. I literally had people stolen by Google that were offered more than $250K/yr.
You are talking about something completely different than the rest of us.
You are talking about something completely different than the rest of us.
Obviously, this just underscores your point, but I wanted to give you some datapoints since you seemed surprised that someone might not take the $125k offer. It's a seller's market.
Hell, I'd probably still keep a better lifestyle staying put here in Florida where I make about half of that (and I'm considered highly paid around here). I would never expect SV pay for a 100% remote job that allowed to me to stay in my lowish COL beach town, and I don't know who would. That doesn't even make any sense.