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My limited experience agrees with that, especially the difference in "proper job" / hacker gap. Imo it's partly scenes being clustered differently rather than purely what exists/doesn't. There is a lot of fringe/weird tech scene in NYC, but more clustered with the new-media art scene, and quite disconnected from the VC/startup scene. NYC Resistor seems to be making some progress towards getting interest from both crowds, but my outsider guess is that its SF analog, Noisebridge, is closer to the SF tech-biz scene than Resistor is to the NYC tech-biz scene.