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A Turkish coworker told me, upon receiving representatives of a tech incubator from Istanbul: "In 2000, everyone wanted to be in Silicon Valley. Today, everyone wants to be Silicon Valley."

That's not true yet, not by a long shot, but I hope we get there soon.

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I do not. People who do not work in tech are being priced out of the area left and right. I'd like to see more startups sprout up in places like Austin, Chicago or better yet Charlotte. Better yet, start a company with remote working being the default from day 1 - makes recruiting the right talent much more straight-forward.

That's what the quote means, though. He saying, that people from many cities are trying to build their own version of Silicon Valley there, with local startup environments.

As much as I'd like it to work, there's really no replacement for working with colleagues face-to-face. And that's not likely to change.

But maybe the hubs can. Perhaps SV can pass the torch to Seattle?

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Personally think a decent chunk of SV is not worth emulating. Hoping to see a new city blaze their own trail w/o the drawbacks of SV (gentrification, 0 work-life balance, ratio of men/women, same people talking about the same topics (e.g. "oh you work in tech, too?! How unique")

I'm always intrigued when I hear about 0 work-life balance in SV. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but I've worked at a small startup (first 10 hires), a medium sized startup (150 people), and a big tech company (10k people) and at all of them I was able to be home by 6pm every day, even with an hour commute, to spend evenings with my family.

The work life balance thing seems to be a made up justification to not be in the valley by people who live outside of it.

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