I currently live in San Francisco but I'm originally from Ohio. The other day I decided to look up programming jobs in Cincinnati on Craigslist for fun, and a s

I currently live in San Francisco but I'm originally from Ohio. The other day I decided to look up programming jobs in Cincinnati on Craigslist for fun, and a search for python yielded 197 jobs in the bay area, 1 in Cincinnati, and 3 in Cleveland. The talent pool for good hackers isn't as deep as the bay area, but I know there are good hackers living in those cities that you would be able to attract to your startup. A hacker could also easily live for <$1000 a month in Ohio if you wanted to do the whole bootstrapping thing. That being said, I don't see myself moving back anytime soon. Other than that I just happen to like living in California a lot more than Ohio, the other day I went to a javascript meetup held at the Facebook office. Core contributors from mootools and jquery were there, and I remember getting the sense that people out here really are on the bleeding edge when it comes to technology. There's really no comparison for that level of community in Ohio.