Painting with a very broad brush here, but as somebody from neither location who lived in both for awhile, New England culture is..risk adverse is not the right

Painting with a very broad brush here, but as somebody from neither location who lived in both for awhile, New England culture is..risk adverse is not the right word, I'd call them deeply traditionalist. New England feels like something out of the British aristocracy where you're expected to go off to school and become a respected professional like a doctor, lawyer or professor. This is perfectly exemplified by the example in the article where somebody turns down being an early employee at Netscape to go back to grad school. This is a great culture to build something like an IBM but terrible for starting an AirBnb. Meanwhile Northern Californian culture just doesn't give a shit about all those titles, the surfers and the hippies all are in the same social circles as the professors and engineers, and value is placed on just doing interesting things for the sake of interesting things.