I'm in Dallas, and I've noticed something similar here. Most of the tech industry in Dallas is telecom. There are many, many reasons why I categorically refuse

I'm in Dallas, and I've noticed something similar here. Most of the tech industry in Dallas is telecom. There are many, many reasons why I categorically refuse to ever move to SV, and one of them is that I love telecom and can't stand web/social/mobile. I'm saddened and disappointed that the biggest tech hub in the country, the part of the country whose name is synonymous with the tech industry, is just a collection of web/social/mobile developers who don't work on anything I consider interesting. SV just has this narrow definition of tech that really puts me off. OK, to be fair, there are a few telecom companies in SV, but they don't dominate the industry like they do in Dallas. My career goals are to work in B2B telecom for the rest of my life and never ever do web/social/mobile, so I need to avoid SV.