[DarthMader]

Personally think a decent chunk of SV is not worth emulating. Hoping to see a new city blaze their own trail w/o the drawbacks of SV (gentrification, 0 work-life balance, ratio of men/women, same people talking about the same topics (e.g. "oh you work in tech, too?! How unique")

[phamilton]

I'm always intrigued when I hear about 0 work-life balance in SV. Maybe I've gotten lucky, but I've worked at a small startup (first 10 hires), a medium sized startup (150 people), and a big tech company (10k people) and at all of them I was able to be home by 6pm every day, even with an hour commute, to spend evenings with my family.

[hueving]

The work life balance thing seems to be a made up justification to not be in the valley by people who live outside of it.