Comment by ldambra | Hacker News Reader

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I'm currently saving for my flight trip to come from France to the US and now that I read this kind of thing I wonder if my objective of moving to the SV is not just plain foolish.

I was born in L.A but I was raised in France, I learned my english mainly from video games and the internet. Now I'm 26 and I want to come back to my home country, hit the reset button and start a new game.

For some reason I have a strong appeal to the west coast, but since I'm the kind of person that has to save for a flight trip, maybe SV is not for me. I'll be coming in about 3 months, should I land in L.A rather than S.F ? My initial objective was to meet interesting people around the start-up world and try to infiltrate the place this way. Maybe it's the wrong approach.

Maybe the question should be : where is the best place to struggle at first ?

SV has a lot going for it, and isn't a bad place to go at all. Go for it!

My main objection is that it's a place for people like you to go, try, see how they do, and then most likely move on. Most people move on because if you're not rich, it's a bad place to try and raise a family and be part of a community with some permanence to it. And even if you're rich, stuck in traffic on 101 is stuck on traffic on 101, no matter how many millions you have in the bank.

If settling down and raising a family isn't in your immediate future, then, absolutely, go there and have a great time! You'll learn a lot and probably have a great time.

"Even if you're rich, stuck in traffic on 101 is stuck on traffic on 101, no matter how many millions you have in the bank."

Wise words.

If you're rich enough, you negotiate landing rights at Moffett, right next to your office.

Zing!

You have a point there.

I always have wanted to get my pilot's license. I'll get on that.

More realistically, you could have a helipad. Still though, my idea of perfection would be someplace where I can live most of my life on foot. I think that that's something a lot of US towns get wrong, especially on the west coast.

I agree with you. That's why YC is in Cambridge half the year. It's the most walkable town in the US.

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