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cost of living in cities has been rising at an insane rate over the last decade, a large part of it is tech salaries. I know a ton of software engineers who only live in cities b/c that's where the jobs are. Places outside of cities also offer a lot of (different) enjoyable things to do.

Presumably big companies moving jobs away from cities will have some impact.

In games the goal of the developer isn't necessarily to have intelligent agents, but to have agents that are fun to play against. Sometimes the goal is to have them be intelligent, but sometimes having them behave in "dumb" but predictable ways makes the game overall more fun.