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It's hard to answer this question without some idea of what your goals are. What is it you feel you're missing out on? The chance to work with great people? To make a lot of money? To eat a decent burrito?

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I think that the burritos in LA are better.

Have you been to HRD?

Them be fightn' words.

Them be true words. (I'm a santa clara valley native)

San Diego is even better.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/americas-best-burrito/

Ahem. Austin.

If the "burritos" in Austin are anything like those found in San Antonio...

Well. That would make them these little things you can fit thumb and forefinger around that come off a grill. They are but sad, pale, imitations of the true glory that is a Mission burrito. A burrito as done by someone who believes it just a slightly upsized taco.

Burrito based decision making is clearly the way to go.

As is Burrito Driven Development!

You may be on to something. I did a quick search for `BDD` and found a LOT of results in google. This Burrito Driven Development must be a thing already.

Let's write the manifesto!

"Dear Humans, for the last several centuries you have used many different mental strategies to try and make decisions. These seem to have produced a generally optimal outcome (ignoring the genocides) with globally increasing standards of living and increases in freedom for humans generally. We are here today to proclaim that you have been wrong all these years. You could have been so much better off if you had only migrated towards where there were more burritos. Ignoring the blatantly counterfactual spin this argument carries, the data is in. Burritos are king. Sincerely, BBD Evangelists"

We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value:

Burritos over processes and tools

Burritos over comprehensive documentation

Burritos over contract negotiation

Burritos over following a plan

That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value burritos.

Consider the midwest. Minneapolis, MN. So many burrito options.

I used to live in Michigan...burritos were terrible there. I seriously thought the entire midwest had burrito blite. I also spent a lot of time around Bemidji many years go, I don't remember seeing a burrito there.

Hopefully you are right and Minneapolis is better. But for my money Phoenix has some great burritos (I don't live there, I'm in Boise)

But very few good ones. If you find a Taco Morelos nearby, eat there!

What is it with the burritos? Burritos are not very good, I mean, just as a dish. "To eat decent dim sum" seems like a good reason to move to SF, though.

Where have you found decent dim sum? I'm asking for a friend.

Both Ton Kiang and Yank Sing are better than anything in the Midwest.

Crispy tripe tacos at the carniciera near Cook Country jail are better than any Mexican food in San Francisco.

Do you count Toronto as "in the Midwest"?

Game theoretically the only rational response to that is "no". Does Toronto have amazing dim sum?

I have had very very good experiences there. I have not eaten dim sum in the Bay Area, but compared to the pacific northwest and southern California it ranks favorably.

If you fly into Toronto City airport you can walk to Chinatown...

(Best dimsum in Toronto is to be had in car-only suburbs, though dimsum in Spadina-Chinatown isn't bad)

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