Cambridge apparently has quite a good culture. There are a couple of groups which run events/weekly lectures/brainstorming things: http://cue.org.uk/ http://cu

Cambridge apparently has quite a good culture. There are a couple of groups which run events/weekly lectures/brainstorming things: http://cue.org.uk/ http://cue.org.uk/ http://www.cutec.org/ http://www.cutec.org/ In particular, Silicon Valley comes to Cambridge is being held in a month and should be quite large: http://www.svc2c.com/ http://www.svc2c.com/ I went to the cutec recruitment event and according to some metric the area is ranked third best in the world.