Comment by matthewbauer

The only advantage listed of the Midwest over the west/east coast is cost of living which you would expect to go up once the long promised "Silicon Prairie" takes shape. Silicon Prairie News is a cool site to see regional news on tech but I've always found it to overhype itself time and time again. There are certainly quite a few growing tech companies in the area in the same way that there were growing engineering companies in the past. It's hard for me to see there ever being a "boom" in tech that makes it comparable to Silicon Valley. We just don't have the investment capital or the human resources to compete despite our cost of living advantages.