yes, during hiring process for on site jobs based on local competition among employers and employees
if you are not competing locally, but with everyone everywhere salaries based on location become meaningless and only thing which counts should be productivity, why should be anyone having same productivity punished for being frugal instead wasting money?
by your logic they should go through your list of expenses, someone who prefer to buy Tesla over ford should get higher salary, someone who prefer to spend vacation in Europe instead of US should have higher salary, this is pretty insane discriminatory logic
if you are not competing locally, but with everyone everywhere salaries based on location become meaningless and only thing which counts should be productivity, why should be anyone having same productivity punished for being frugal instead wasting money?
by your logic they should go through your list of expenses, someone who prefer to buy Tesla over ford should get higher salary, someone who prefer to spend vacation in Europe instead of US should have higher salary, this is pretty insane discriminatory logic