I'm fortunate(?) enough to have spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley; cumulatively ~9 months of my life in the past few years. I used the word fortunate becau

I'm fortunate(?) enough to have spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley; cumulatively ~9 months of my life in the past few years. I used the word fortunate because my time there has only convinced me that it's somewhere I would never want to live, being as crowded and expensive as it is. It also reminds of Washington DC where everyone wants to know what you do for a living right away. It seems like everybody's got a plan; it's kind of like Nashville with a tan. I hear all these arguments like 'talent center' and 'network effects' and 'efficiency', but then look at the results of cramming all that talent into such a tiny area: stress and misery. We can go on and on about building more houses or condos. In fact, they could build thousands more houses and condos and make it all perfectly affordable for everyone. But then what? Who wants to spend 3 hours getting over 17 just to go to Santa Cruz? What about parking once you get there? Do you want to wait for an hour for a chance to get one of the spots at the tiny parking lot above the water? Long lines for ice cream and water. It would be like the Hamptons in summer, which is to say it would be dreadful. Even if you can afford it, who wants to live that kind of life? Just so that billionaire so-and-so can have another jet or another yacht or another mansion? It just doesn't make any sense to me at all. I think it would be much more efficient to have multiple tech talent centers all over the country. I think most network guys would also say that such an arrangement would be more fault tolerant. I'm a programmer, so I guess I would say that it would make tech more loosely coupled.