Silicon Valley is (still) an example of vitality. You don't have to join small companies as a founder or for more than a reasonably well paying job. You don't h

Silicon Valley is (still) an example of vitality. You don't have to join small companies as a founder or for more than a reasonably well paying job. You don't have to be part of the few who will rack their brains trying to find ways to sneak in between the FAANGs. Civic participation, by constrast, is difficult because it runs into the giant morass of public institutions laws and rules. Well serving the political forces in places but again not much to do with the FAANGs. (For example, while the city of Mountain View professes its pride in Google, it fights everything that Google wants to do inch by inch. Google doesn't exactly find much "proud cooperation" with its city.)