SV used to be a cheap place to live and this helped the startup scene grow into what it is today. Now it's (more or less) self sustaining. It enabled a lot of

SV used to be a cheap place to live and this helped the startup scene grow into what it is today. Now it's (more or less) self sustaining. It enabled a lot of risk taking. I don't think you could call any major Canadian city cheap. So how does it build up an ecosystem? Maybe if all the VCs etc get chased out of the US?