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I'd add: "Live someplace cool." Cool is a moving target, but I'm always blown away by people who spend their life in unremarkable places due to inertia. For
by webwright 18y ago
I'd add: "Live someplace cool." Cool is a moving target, but I'm always blown away by people who spend their life in unremarkable places due to inertia.
For me, cool was Alaska for 10 years (a few years longer than I should've stayed, really). If you love tech, get to a place where tech is exciting. If you really love tech, that's probably SV. If you'd like to live someplace less crappy/expensive, that might be Seattle, Austin, or (if you can stand the East Coast) Boston.
- timr 18y ago"if you'd like to live someplace less crappy/expensive, that might be Seattle" Heh. That's funny...if I could give my 22-year-old self a piece of valuable advice, it would be to stay the hell out of Seattle. (It's June 3, 55 degrees and raining. Fun stuff. Y'all come.)
- aston 18y ago54 in San Francisco. That's why everyone says the city's cool.
- webwright 18y agoHeh. I'm in Seattle, too. Ever make the local startup meetups? IMO, Seattle beats SV/SF as a place to live, but I'm moderately outdoorsy (sailing, kayaking, etc) and travel a lot during the wet winter. I only lived in SV for 3 months (for YC) but I really didn't care for it. I like Austin, but 95 in the summer is murder.
- timr 18y agoYeah, we met at the last STS meeting, and the drinking afterward. I showed you guys how to get there....