Poll: HN readers, where's your residence? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by rmc » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:07 PM UTC

rplnt wrote: post #115

jwr wrote: post #88

UK and "Rest of Europe", got to love this point of view :-) You might as well go ahead and say "UK" and "Europe", wouldn't be too far off the mark.

On a (loosely) related note, dividing Europe to West/East (perhaps Central) is purely political (it follows Berlin Wall[1]). For example, countries of V4[2] are in the middle[3] and yet they are called Eastern Europe. Another reason might be that most of the East is covered by Russia. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visegrád_group 3. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co…

dividing Europe to West/East (perhaps Central) is purely political (it follows Berlin Wall[1])

There has been a long history of splitting Europe into East/West, starting with when the Roman Empire was split into East & West. Though the definition of what's east and what's west has changed since then.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by sasvari » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:11 PM UTC

kgutteridge wrote: post #154

UK here. It is interesting to how the poll was segregated! can I ask where you are from? I've always thought that a lot of people from the UK are guilty of thinking US, UK, Maybe France, Germany, Spain, RoW (Rest of World) Thankfully the internet and travel have made the world a smaller place and these opinions are starting to break down!

the reason I made this distinction was mainly due to the cultural similarities the UK shares with the US (not only the language), which should result in the UK being overrepresented in this poll (compared to the rest of Europe).

I didn't want to split this up too much, and because of the (kind of) US-centric nature of HN I just wanted to get a rough estimate about where people reside.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by tonakai » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:12 PM UTC

kenver wrote: post #42

In Prague, Czech Republic, after abandoning the UK last year.

cheers, me too, except I am from Turkey.

Re: Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?

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Post by richardw » Thu, Dec 01, 2011, 12:12 PM UTC

ilitirit wrote: post #125

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sup buddy? Lagos Nigeria here. Are you in Capetown? I heard that is the SF of these parts.

I'm from Cape Town. Some parts of it might be like SF, but maybe not so much in the startup sense.

More than Joburg, methinks. You have Silicon Cape, Google Ventures, topless models, great mountain biking and a local government that has some interest in your continued success.