I liked Arlington when I lived there: Short bus ride to Cambridge, walk to the Red Line in good weather, bike path, wide streets, walkable, not too urban, not too suburban, not too expensive...
But Palo Alto has most of that plus startups and sun, so it certainly makes sense.
Perhaps not so crazy. Last year I discovered two other Ruby programmers (one at another startup, one at a more established firm) among the parents in my son's kindergarten class.
And this was a reasonably sized class of ~20 kids.
Is time for an Arlington YC meetup?
I work in Arlington, and live just one town over. Yup, Ruby. An Arlington meetup might be fun, I never seem to be able to make the Boston Ruby events in Cambridge.
We had a good crowd last night. I need to buy more chairs.
no answer to the weather issue, however.