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NYC has its charms, but it has its nightmarish qualities too. People tend to live in places convenient to their first job. Getting around for work is a nightma
by Duff 15y ago
NYC has its charms, but it has its nightmarish qualities too.
People tend to live in places convenient to their first job. Getting around for work is a nightmare unless you live in an area served by the right public transit connections.
Now if you are young/poor enough or rich enough to live in Manhattan, it's a magical place.
Also keep in mind that the industry clusters in NYC aren't what they once were. Finance is the king kong of NYC industry.
Silicon Valley had a totally different kind of industry cluster -- you had a torrent of Federal dollars flowing in for defense work, which ultimately concentrated technical talent and created all sorts of spinoff industrial activity. NYC is a great place to make money, but it isn't the same as SV.
- drumdance 15y agoI absolutely love NY, but I think if I lived there I'd be too distracted by the glitz or too envious of all the rich i-bankers to do a startup. I live in Boulder, which IMO has a the perfect combo of livability and talent & resources need to launch a tech company. It will never be Silicon Valley, but that also means it will never have the traffic. It's really nice to be able to walk or ride a bike to most meetings. And every day I seem to bump into fellow entrepreneurs while in line at the coffee shop a couple blocks from my office.