[elnado]

Right, I was just about to reply with a similar response to another post. I went to Virginia Tech, lived in Northern VA for a while, and now I'm here in SF and it's like night and day. I did not believe that being here would be such a huge and significant difference, and yet it is. Influential and successful people in tech are so incredibly accessible here. After only a couple months I got to meet VCs, startup founders, CEOs of successful companies, other highly intelligent people in tech doing amazing things and so on. Most importantly, at least for me, there's a constant external motivation to push yourself, learn, collaborate, get involved, to do more, and I love it :D

[jdavis703]

Fellow ex-Virginian and I have to agree. Many of the entrepreneurs in the DMV seem like they're doing a startup because doing a startup is cool, but don't have any idea on how to actually build a business. Maybe one day I'll come back, but it's even hard to find skilled people who want to work at a startup out there -- perhaps because they've experienced what I'm talking about also.