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Happy to see my home base in Austin doing respectably at #13.

But London at 43? Seattle all the way down at 21? I find those results surprising. Is South Korean truly better in terms of gender equality than the USA? Many asian cultures are very male oriented.

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I was happy to see it there too, but if Cost of Living for San Francisco is 2.91 and Austin is 3.71, I'm having trouble putting much value in their metrics.

I stumbled on that one too. But of course a high cost of living results in a low score and vice versa. Probably should have called it affordability.

Yeah, after reading through the list and the reasoning, I'm not sure what this has to do with startups at all. It looks more like a "is it worth moving here" index than anything else.

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