Like all things in this town, there's the finance side of the fence, and then there's everyone else's side. My experience in NYC is directly opposite to yours -

Like all things in this town, there's the finance side of the fence, and then there's everyone else's side. My experience in NYC is directly opposite to yours - I rarely meet people in finance, but that's probably because I work at a consumer tech startup and my network is mostly consumer web and media. There are lots of us out here.