> I'd always imagined Berkeley would be the ideal place — that it would basically be Cambridge with good weather. But when I finally tried living there a couple years ago, it turned out not to be. The message Berkeley sends is: you should live better. Life in Berkeley is very civilized. It's probably the place in America where someone from Northern Europe would feel most at home. But it's not humming with ambition.
With VCs and touting a move to Miami, Austin & other cities as tech spreads out, I wonder what message those cities are sending to attract ambitious people.
Or have we sufficiently gotten past the point of tech being in a physical location vs being on zoom, slack & twitter.