[potatolicious]

Seattle is a tech hub in scale, but not diversity. The city is basically held down (on the software front anyhow) by Microsoft and Amazon. The number of actual software companies is low compared to the Bay Area or NYC.

Seattle's tech job market also heavily favors large, entrenched players - the same folks who aren't advertising on HN.

[pnathan]

There are a number of startups there too! I've talked with a number of them. Lots of cloud-esque & analytics firms there.