One of the things I've realized travelling around the world is that the bottom 95% of the tech scene looks remarkably similar everywhere in the world (including

One of the things I've realized travelling around the world is that the bottom 95% of the tech scene looks remarkably similar everywhere in the world (including SF & SV). The difference is whether the top 5% of the scene exists at all and, if it does, how big it is. It's always a hard thing to gauge because the interests of the top 5% are in protecting themselves from the bottom 95% of noise. You need to be invited behind the curtain, so to speak and there's ever increasing curtains everywhere you look once you're in. Thus, it can be very hard to comparatively judge startup scenes by city because you never know how your view is being biased.