Nope. I lived the rat race for 7 years before I learned enough to get out and do exactly what you're doing. If you're already successful enough at consulting re

Nope. I lived the rat race for 7 years before I learned enough to get out and do exactly what you're doing. If you're already successful enough at consulting remotely and starting lifestyle businesses to be making a living at it, then there's little benefit to going to the valley. There are two exceptions, though. The first: if you want to start a fast growing startup with venture capital funding. For that, you still need to go to the valley. The second: if the customers for your lifestyle businesses are silicon valley companies, then you want to go to where the highest concentration of your customers are.