This will get me downvoted in flames but... ... yes, it's a hardship. It's a hardship that is, in a sense, one way to ingrain into you certain beliefs, by taki

This will get me downvoted in flames but... ... yes, it's a hardship. It's a hardship that is, in a sense, one way to ingrain into you certain beliefs, by taking away your familiar surroundings and making you part of the lifestyle / surrounded by people doing the same thing. Just like the military. And religious orders. And cults. The idea that I proposed to pg at startup school could have been a real business, that earned real money. I didn't have to be in the valley. I looked at my life and realized that it would be asinine to pick up and move on the argument of somebody who if I moved, I could succeed. And, lo and behold, look at where lots of successful web-based businesses come from: Georgia, Brooklyn, Chicago... Yes, if you want to climb the suicidal face of the mountain, if you want to grow big and get bought, maybe you need connections more than great ideas, great understanding of people, or great chops. But then again, maybe you don't. And yet again, if you want to create a business that charges real money, it doesn't matter where you are - and anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to sell you something.