> Not sure why you'd compare Houston to all of California? I believe everyone in this sub-thread has used "CA" to mean the SF Bay Area plus greater Los Angeles

> Not sure why you'd compare Houston to all of California? I believe everyone in this sub-thread has used "CA" to mean the SF Bay Area plus greater Los Angeles (and certainly I have). Similary, "NE" was just shorthand for the big cities therein, not the whole region. Ultimately, population is just a very loose proxy for number of tech jobs.