Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines
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Do the Most Hipster Thing Possible – Move to Des Moines
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#2pass.
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#3Godspeed Des Moines. Godspeed.
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#5Best men's (and junior) roller derby team in the world.
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#6Having moved from Des Moines to San Francisco, I can say with confidence that Iowa has its upsides. A flourishing community of startup founders, hilariously low rents (my perfectly nice studio ran for Lack of diversity is a serious problem; most people in Des Moines were born there. From a startup perspective, there's also not much of an investor ecosystem, and some companies struggle to find local funding. It's a smaller and more homogenous city, with everything that entails.
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#7Nice try, Des Moines Jaycees. Nice try.
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#8Having moved from Des Moines to San Francisco, I can say with confidence that Iowa has its upsides. A flourishing community of startup founders, hilariously low rents (my perfectly nice studio ran for Lack of diversity is a serious problem; most people in Des Moines were born there. From a startup perspective, there's also not much of an investor ecosystem, and some companies struggle to find local funding. It's a sm…
It is interesting that not more satellite areas around SF are rising centres of startups. Even Sacramento, which is quite near, does not seem to much activity. Anyone know why?
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#9>> ... in the process of building a new Des Moines, a tech hub in Silicon Prairie...
Every story that comes out about every city has a statement like this. We've had different cities across the country trying to become "the Silicon Valley of XYZ" for the last 15-20 years. Have any of them done it? Considering we're still calling the effort "the Silicon Valley of blah blah blah", I think not.
I used to live in Philadelphia. I now live in Washington D.C. I've spent a lot of time in Baltimore. I wouldn't want any of these places to change from what they are to the "Silicon Valley of the East Coast". They should stay Philadelphia, Baltimore, and DC.
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the Valley is awesome. I've personally never been there. I hope it has its own culture that the people there are proud of and it's not trying to become "The NYC of California" or something like that. My complaint is that we get bludgeoned over the head with popular press talking about "diversity is good, we need to increase diversity", but it misses the biggest chunks of it when it's right in their face. There is still a lot of good left in local culture.
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#10Having moved from Des Moines to San Francisco, I can say with confidence that Iowa has its upsides. A flourishing community of startup founders, hilariously low rents (my perfectly nice studio ran for Lack of diversity is a serious problem; most people in Des Moines were born there. From a startup perspective, there's also not much of an investor ecosystem, and some companies struggle to find local funding. It's a sm…
It is interesting that not more satellite areas around SF are rising centres of startups. Even Sacramento, which is quite near, does not seem to much activity. Anyone know why?
This is just a guess, but perhaps there is a perception that, being so close, why not just move the rest of the way to SF?