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This extremely generous matching offer came at a fortuitous time for me, since I just succeeded at my master plan of becoming an effective altruist in Silicon Valley and doing earn-to-give for MIRI. $10,000 from me as well.
With full respect intended, are you insane trying to pull an "earn to give" plan in Silicon Valley? Move somewhere cheaper if you're not independently wealthy!
They would spend less, but presumably also earn less, and it's the arithmetic difference (rather than the ratio) that matters.
That depends. There are ways to work high-salary jobs in low-cost-of-living areas if you're willing to deliberately seek them out. I know when I worked remote for a few months a year and a half ago, my after-housing income on a theoretical annualized salary of $66k/year was larger (arithmetically) than my previous $80k salary minus Bostonian housing expenses.
If you're really trying to pour money into a charitable effort rather than a landlord's coffers, I would suggest running the numbers and seeing what you can do.
That's not true in a more than trivial sense. Nobody literally means that the low-cost-of-living area has no high-salary jobs; what they mean is that the distribution of jobs in that area is more weighted against the high--salary jobs. There will always be individual high-salary jobs in that area--but there will be fewer of them. The reason that you can only get those jobs if you spend a lot of effort finding them out is that since there are fewer such jobs, the easy-to-find ones have all been taken already.
Pointing out "I found one" doesn't generalize. There aren't enough for everyone to find one, and if everyone did try to find one, they'd end up having to make even more effort than you (since you probably took one of the hard to find but not hardest to find ones), and the next even more, up to the point where there just won't be any left at any difficulty level.
That's a very good point; I should give a more specific recommendation. I've found that the monthly Hacker News job postings often contain a fairly decent number of companies offering to pay high salaries for remote work. It's not going to give you the Bay Area lifestyle if you work outside that area via internet, of course, but if your actual intention is to live frugally so you can donate to ~~charity~~world optimization efforts, you were probably avoiding the Bay Area Lifestyle anyway.
I require a lower standard of living than most people with middle class incomes, so I don't anticipate a problem in making my donation goals.