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The big one for me is the type of people there. I grew up in a very rural area, and worked in some big towns/small cities before coming to London. Maybe it's t
by dukeyukey 3y ago
The big one for me is the type of people there.
I grew up in a very rural area, and worked in some big towns/small cities before coming to London. Maybe it's the sheer mass of people, but it's _much_ easier to find people on my wavelength in London than anywhere else. And that's something I'd happily give up food options, cultural events, and honestly quite a lot else for.
- homefree 3y agoYeah - this is probably the main benefit. Cities draw lots of people, typically ambitious people, but really all types. > Ambitious people are rare, so if everyone is mixed together randomly, as they tend to be early in people's lives, then the ambitious ones won't have many ambitious peers. When you take people like this and put them together with other ambitious people, they bloom like dying plants given water. Probably most ambitious people are starved for the sort of encouragement they'd get from ambitious peers, whatever their age. [0] I generally think the above is true, but even outside of ambition there's just finding people to have interesting conversations with that are also interested in the things you're interested in whatever that might be. That's a lot easier with you live in an area that has more people, especially when it selects for the kind of people willing to move to a new place. It's one of the reasons global hubs have an advantage over mid-size cities and why the bay area has a specific advantage when it comes to tech. [0]: http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html