I did - and this is in India, where "high" isn't really all that high to begin with.
My thought process was pretty simple: at the time, I was more or less independent, and living /very/ frugally, which made the decision easy. I do know this: if my financial needs were different, I wouldn't have moved.
Well, there's not much to say, really: I finished college, joined a dull-ish corporate job (that nonetheless taught me more than I wanted about politics, including the fact that I suck at it), and then joined a startup.
This is the kind of startup that doesn't figure all that much on HN, since it's in a rather specialized niche of a specialized industry to begin with. I'm not a founder, but one of the early employees.
My thought process was pretty simple: at the time, I was more or less independent, and living /very/ frugally, which made the decision easy. I do know this: if my financial needs were different, I wouldn't have moved.