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Longing to return to Midwest is just nostalgia. It's usually for the "losers" The ones that are doing well in the Valley don't long to return. It's usually

Longing to return to Midwest is just nostalgia. It's usually for the "losers" The ones that are doing well in the Valley don't long to return. It's usually the one's struggling. I'm in Michigan btw. I won't say there's a talent shortage here, but folks here are not as driven as those in the Bay. We are too conservative. Hell, I just posted that I'm hiring for my startup and the languages are golang for backend and typescript for frontend. I was told that using Go is a risk for Michigan. :-/ I will never advice a young person with time on their site to come back to the Midwest, Midwest is for raising families not building a startup.

ggg9990 8y ago
That is simply an overgeneralization. I work with two very talented engineers from “Red America” and they are eager to leave the Bay Area and get back to a place where people drive trucks, listen to country music, and hunt and fish. Their plan is likely going to be to work until their early 40s and then just retire to there.
- segmondy 8y ago
  Yes, retire, but not start a startup. I don't have a problem with Michigan, I actually like it and won't mind retiring here. But for tech startup, it's really frustrating.