I was "headhunted" by Google and finally caved in to the pressure and ended up having 6 phone interviews (after sending them my CV etc)...

Current job: location: excellent, standard of living:, country: not UK, pay: pretty good really!

I have 10 years of software engineering experience, PhD, CEng (not that it means much), 50 papers, my own team of 6 people and lots of challenging projects. Great stuff

Google offered me: same pay but the location would have been London and the job...well...java programmer

WTF?!?!?!! Sorry, but if that's their "fun loving culture" then no wonder people are leaving!