In the film industry, you always hear about some other city being the next Hollywood. The problem is, it's an industry, not a city. If you want to make blockbuster movies, the entire area there is built around providing the services to do all that. If you need a special, weird prop, they've got a guy who has two of them or can make you one in an hour.
The same is true in Silicon Valley. You need some special coding or hardware, they've got a whole subdivision of those guys on 24-hour call. No problem.
You don't find that in any other city for those two industries. You wouldn't want to start a wheat operation in San Francisco but cause they don't have the tools sitting in a store down the street with 10 farmers who know how to use it. Go to Kansas, young man.
The same is true in Silicon Valley. You need some special coding or hardware, they've got a whole subdivision of those guys on 24-hour call. No problem.
You don't find that in any other city for those two industries. You wouldn't want to start a wheat operation in San Francisco but cause they don't have the tools sitting in a store down the street with 10 farmers who know how to use it. Go to Kansas, young man.