Who's your city?

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1. dholowiskiSep 2012
   >Go somewhere where you will be happy

   So amazingly important. Read who's your city by Richard Florida.

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2. dholowiskiJul 2012
   Get the book "Who's your city". Don't just move somewhere because that's where you find a job. Spend a good amount of time and effort on finding the right city for you (the book explains why this is important). I so wish I had done this long ago - I've lived for 15 years in cities/towns where there is very little to no tech community, and it has been soul-crushing. My next move is a well thought out, planned and researched move - basically so i can be with more people like me.
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3. RyanMcGrealMar 2010
   Some recent engaging reads:

   * Dan Ariely, Predictably Irrational

   * Christopher McDougall, Born to Run

   * Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers

   * Jeb Brugman, Welcome to the Urban Revolution

   * Richard Florida, Who's Your City?

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4. eldavidoJan 2015
   Chicago has a significant advantage: it's more "normal" in that it's more representative of the United States, than the Bay Area. This provides a fertile ground for new companies to emerge:

     - Childcare / anything to do with children (e.g. Sittercity)
     - Things for people without college degrees -- SF has 48%    [1] degreed workforce vs. 28% [2] nationally.
     - People in Chicago/the rest of the US have houses; over 80% of SF's population lives in apartments. There's tons of businesses involving housing including lawn care, general home improvement, construction, contracting, etc.
     - People in Chicago have cars; many people in SF don't drive (surprised Uber came from here? I'm not)
     - Anything involving small business
     - Also, world-class financial center
   

   There are other things, the point is to focus on your strengths, not try to be a knock-off of something else (an idea from Richard Florida's "Who's Your City", a book about the relative strengths of various cities)

   [1] Saw this in Business Insider a while ago [2] "Coming Apart" by Charles Murray

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5. Paul_D_SantanaApr 2013
   What about doing both?

   Work at a great company and your own projects on the side. Seems like the best of both worlds.

   Ever since starting to read HN a few weeks ago, I've become interested in learning Ruby, Rails and general web development. I love where I'm at now (which is not hidden but easily found via my name and profile link) and the fact that I can spend my free time on weekends learning for the sake of learning, without the stress of having to make an income from it.

   There is a great quote from Who's Your City that states you need an additional $133,000 in annual income to make up for the happiness from seeing your friends and family on a daily or weekly basis. That's a big jump for those quitting to move halfway across the country.

   The quit-to-startup culture is certainly enticing but there's really no reason many of us can't have the best of both worlds without quitting a great job at a great company.

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6. mstoehrJul 2008
   The author might have done well to read pg's essay on disagreement since his attacks were mostly vague (I too agree that the characterization of London and Paris could have been better supported), and the attacks were executed merely by bringing up an example point and then not attacking it. On the point of cities, I think that there is good economic evidence (not cited by pg) that Cambridge and Boston are very much an intellectual center because some of the greatest universities of the world and they are leaders in terms of patents and scientific citations (from "Who's Your City" by Richard Florida).
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