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I don't think Seattle wants to be SV whatsoever, nor does it have to try to be.

In fact there's a lot of open, albeit in jest, hostility towards the "californication" of the PNW.

Portland? My two tech friends in Portland love it, but neither say it's a tech mecca at all.

More of a Portland-culture Mecca, as redundant as it sounds

I don't get who "we" is supposed to be in this statement. Who has Indianapolis and SLC?

no one sane is going to call indianapolis a tech mecca

The USA. He's saying the USA already has enough tech cities.

I think they fall in the SV Wannabes category.