[funkiee]

There's something to be said for being in close proximity with a lot of other people working in the same profession. I came from working in tech for 8 years before moving to Silicon Valley and it's a world of difference.

In other words, Country Music will always exist outside of Nashville, but if you make Country music, Nashville is the place to be.

[bdcravens]

People don't move to Nashville or Hollywood to be near colleagues; they move there to "make it big". I'm sure the same is true of most who ingress into SV. At least programmers can move to pretty much any big city and find a job paying upper middle-class wages (and can do pretty good living anywhere with decent Internet working remotely)