Don't get me wrong.. I actually liked a lot of Seattle .. At least the coffee shops, donut shops, and cupcake shops (Seattle is good at foods which cater to sea

Don't get me wrong.. I actually liked a lot of Seattle .. At least the coffee shops, donut shops, and cupcake shops (Seattle is good at foods which cater to seasonal depression eating!).. Plus I met my two favorite Hacker News users there (troyd and carlcoryell). But beyond that, Seattle as a place for start-ups is just strange. At every happy hour, startup meetup, startup coffee event, whatever, invariably the theme always turned into this self-righteous "Seattle is just as important as the Silicon Valley, why don't we get the same respect? I mean we have Microsoft, Amazon, Boeing, and .. uhm .. that other company".