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Chattanooga, TN (which already has 1Gig fiber deployed throughout the city) is definitely heading in the same (right) direction. The cost of living is drastically cheaper, and the quality of life with easy access to mountains, rivers, lakes, shops, cafes, etc can be drastically better. The drawbacks of course are obvious; hiring enough talented people, smaller city environment, relocation, creating connective tissue with other startup people/ funders to create network effects. But, if you're build a product, service, company and don't immediately have a product-market fit, this environment allows you to stay alive longer, which can allow you to find success, whereas your seed funding or quick-market play would have died and dried up in more expensive towns.