+1 on the STS list FWIW - I did this exact thing in 2004 - I am one of the founders of PayScale (www.payscale.com). We (wife+3-month-old) moved from NYC to Se

+1 on the STS list FWIW - I did this exact thing in 2004 - I am one of the founders of PayScale (www.payscale.com). We (wife+3-month-old) moved from NYC to Seattle after we got funded. The 3 month old is now 6.5 and PayScale is doing pretty well :) There is a pretty active startup community here. http://www.seattle20.com/ http://www.seattle20.com/ is a good place to start. There are a lot of startup events going on in Seattle. You can view http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/ http://www.seattletechcalendar.com/ to see some of them.