Living in the Rust Belt, I play the world's tiniest violin for people who say it's too expensive in San Francisco, yet are themselves transplants who chose to live there.

If you're disgusted with the rampant inflation of SF, come to Iowa, or Michigan, or Indiana, or Ohio. You can live like a king on wages that barely keep you in the middle class on the West Coast.

Bring us the economic value of your startups and the well-educated workers they draw. Give smart, ambitious local kids a reason to stay instead of moving away forever to some coastal city. Spreading the opportunity and wealth of the tech economy outside a handful of the biggest cities will do a lot to calm the political anger that's led to Donald Trump.