I used to be a 100,000+ / year flyer as a consultant, plus I spent four years in college in the midwest. I'm a white, straight, male, but most of the country sc

I used to be a 100,000+ / year flyer as a consultant, plus I spent four years in college in the midwest. I'm a white, straight, male, but most of the country scares me to the point I have no desire to go outside the pacific northwest any longer. I've never been treated so badly by TSA as I was in Columbus, and I'm somewhat disappointed in myself that I did not file a lawsuit. To think that anywhere in the midwest or the southeast could become a prosperous center of innovation? Good effing luck with that. Oh sure, there are pockets where this bank or that manufacturer will settle for a tax deal or cheaper labour, but there's a big difference between that and the west coast culture that enables breakthrough science and engineering.