They're not an outlier - more than half of people worldwide live in areas where a fintech dev earns much less than $50k/year. Another commenter is complaining about continental Europe, but South America, Africa and much of Asia each have more developers and (on average) smaller salaries than Europe.
> For better or worse, HN is a SF Bay Area centric forum. U.S. centric beyond that. All the discussion of whats normal needs to be understood through that lens.
It's not a SF Bay Area centric forum - I can't find the stats now, but if I recall correctly, a bit more than half of HN commenters are outside of USA and just 10% or less are from Bay Area. So while the topic of the discussion often is about SF companies (but more often than not it's about generic tech issues that are interesting everywhere), this is a quite global forum and the discussion here quite clearly is not properly understood through a lens focused solely on Bay Area, as 90% of people in that discussion are from elsewhere.
Huh, I'll be damned. I found some stats (from 2011) that were roughly 20% SF & NY (bucketed together), 30% the rest of the U.S., 30% Europe, and 20% elsewhere. I'm surprised. 20% for two cities, and 50% for one country are still a pretty heavy focus, but definitely not to the degree I'd previously thought.
