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The meme of entrepreneurs moving to KC just to get gigabit seems overblown though.

I just relocated my team to KC from Boston after living in the Home for Hackers house for 3 months.

Very few entrepreneurs are moving here exclusively for Fiber, the real attraction is the super inclusive community and the extensive resources available to startup founders. Every single person I have met here is so unbelievably welcoming and will go out of their way to help you out. The Fiber is just icing on the cake.

Another huge reason people have been moving here is cost. My team just moved into a 1800sqft house for $1100/month and fiber ($79/month) gets installed in a few weeks. So much cheaper than Boston..

Oh yeah, and the Kansas Angel Investor Tax Credits [http://www.ksrevenue.org/taxcredits-angel.html] are great.

I would guess it's similar, but I know people back home in mid MO (not quite KC) that pay less in rent than long term parking I see advertised in Boston.

Grew up in St. Louis. A good friend of mine was a MO State Rep a few years ago, and he rented a 2-bedroom apartment near the capitol in Jefferson City for $275/month. It's insane.

I live in Lawrence, and have lived there for ~7 years now. I just moved into a brand-new (first person in the building) two-bedroom apartment with fiber to the building, very nice appliances, granite countertops, etc.

And I am paying less in rent than my friends in DC would pay for a broom closet.

I definitely don't think there will be a stampede out to KC.

But I think the idea of "arbitrary rallying flag" is a good one. This could be a really great way to evolve the KC tech community. They now have some validation (both Google and Brad Feld have invested there), and there is some excitement.

I think it's a good thing, and I'm excited to see what happens

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