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Once you've done that, you probably don't need the valley.

They Silicon Valley's days aren't over, but with the rapid growth of hacker spaces, incubators, angel groups, and other SV "services" in other areas, the need to be in SV is diminishing.

Stay where you're successful and help build your own local SV type services.

Des Moines is a great example of where that article makes sense.

But there's no sense in leaving once reaching success. Reinvest it in the community that helps bring you up. Build something bigger. Repeat.

or even outside USA. I'm in Colombia now and my monthly budget is a small fraction of what it was in The States.