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Silicon Alley[1], Beach[2], Desert[3], Forest[4], Gulf[5], Peach[6], Prairie[7], Taiga[8], Wadi[9].

To paraphrase a Game of Thrones put-down, if you have to call yourself "Silicon" to say you are like the Valley, then you aren't like the Valley.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Alley

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Beach

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Desert

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Forest

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Gulf

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_peach

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Prairie

[8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Taiga

[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Wadi

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Don't forget Silicon Slopes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Slopes

Found the whole list on Wikipedia too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon...

funny Seattle only has "Silicon Canal" for the bit around Fremont where Google, Adobe, Tableau, GeekWire, Facebook, etc. have offices. you'd think between Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Zillow, Redfin, and the countless other tech companies with headquarters or satellite offices in the area that some nickname would have sprung up for the whole region. "Silicon Isthmus" or something.

maybe we're still riding the "Jet City" thing from when Boeing was here?

I prefer "Cloud City"

I'm pretty sure my little section of SOMA was called the Cloud Corridor before you guys were being called Cloud City, Joe ;).

Irrelevant, but I laughed really hard at "Silicotton Valley" on that list.

Not only from the coattails point of view but also from the fact that except for maybe TX [TI, AMD, etc], most of those don't work with "Silicon" anything. They should be calling themselves either Bit/Byte/Binary or simply software -Alley/Beach/Desert/Forest... etc.

To be fair, I concede SF was never Silicon anything either and has coopted and wrested the name from the Route 237/golden triangle.

sigh Felt special coming out of "Silicon Valley North"[1] before this comment.

[1] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/tech-news/ontario-...

Don't forget silicon hills!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas

The city also adopted "Silicon Hills" as a nickname in the 1990s due to a rapid influx of technology and development companies.

To be fair, there actually is a semiconductor industry here, so "Silicon" would be an apt description.

Absolutely. I was surprised to find how big the semi industry is in ATX, we have (off the top of my head):

1) Intel

2) AMD

3) Nvidia

4) NXP

5) Samsung (they even have a fab here!)

6) ARM

7) Qualcom

And several hardware start ups, etc. It is actually a pretty major part of the local economy.

Silicon Labs

Cirrus Logic

Calxeda

Ambiq

RIP Calxeda

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_shire

Regardless I'm happy for the tech job market to expand beyond the Bay Area.

Honestly everyone is pulling back a tad from the beach itself in Venice/Santa Monica so it's probably better to call it Silicon del Rey.

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