It's about the community, not the land. I expect you could relocate PG and Jessica and have similar results. The trick is that you'd need to also transplant a

It's about the community, not the land. I expect you could relocate PG and Jessica and have similar results. The trick is that you'd need to also transplant a huge social circle and startup-friendly infrastructure. Including unintuitive things like a large collection of small café and independent restaurant owners. Paul touched on this a bit in his writings on making cities into startup hubs: http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html http://paulgraham.com/pgh.html http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html