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Can confirm. Live in Madison, WI. People here call it a "city" and "tech hub" but the downtown is like 3 square blocks and there's like half a dozen """tech"""
by packetlost 5y ago
Can confirm. Live in Madison, WI. People here call it a "city" and "tech hub" but the downtown is like 3 square blocks and there's like half a dozen """tech""" companies in the area and maybe twice as many small startups. lol
- ghaff 5y agoA ton of college towns are like that. The college/uni does bring some degree of "culture" and other entertainment and spur some tech-related companies you wouldn't find in an equivalently-sized place that didn't have a college attached, but the options are limited. I worked in downtown Nashua NH for a number of years. The downtown was actually quite nice. On the river, quite a few restaurants, some shops, etc. But yeah, outside of a few blocks adjacent to maybe 5 or 6 blocks of Main Street, things either started to get sketchy or just started to blend into the strip mall and industrial parks south of town. Raleigh, where I sometimes travel to because we have a big office there, is very similar.
- packetlost 5y agoYeah. Madison is a bunch of small towns wrapped around a college. Boulder, CO is similar too, though maybe to a lesser extent