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- Lots of creativity? Check.

- A ton of talent available to those that know how to find it and care for it? Check.

- A vibrant hacker community like nowhere else? Check.

- A vibrant entrepreneurial community like nowhere else? Check.

Seriously, did Silicon Valley step on your mother's grave or something? You sound like Oscar Wilde's definition of "cynic": someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

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> Seriously, did Silicon Valley step on your mother's grave or something? You sound like Oscar Wilde's definition of "cynic": someone who knows the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

Not bad going, two ad-hominems and not a single rebuttal of my arguments.

Oh, and my mother is alive and well, thank you.

You're right, I'm not saying that these don't happen. I'm saying that you're focusing on all the things that are wrong with the valley and ignoring all the good things about it. That's no better than being one of the people who pick out all the good and ignore the bad.

Silicon Valley is a good place to live and work. Is it overhyped? Sure. But that by itself doesn't make it a bad place.

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