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There’s a Hacker News group on AirBnB, through which I found a couple of very welcoming hosts in the San Francisco Bay Area. Check out http://www.airbnb.com/groups/hackernews/.

I also met a lot of really friendly people at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View: http://hackerdojo.pbworks.com/. I’d recommend asking them for some advice — everyone I met there was helpful and welcoming.

Good luck!

“There are ± 100 million websites out there with Flash content.”

Plus or minus?

Also, I tried to copy and paste that text from the footer but I couldn’t because it’s all wrapped up in Flash.

Here’s mine from about 5 months ago: http://i.imgur.com/MqZop.jpg

“SproutCore” sounds like a musical sub-genre of veggie metal.

Wh... what? Minimal applications aren't a result of laziness, they're designed that way. One of the many reasons why, IMO, Tweetie is the best Twitter client for OS X.

“I’m [...] starting work on turning Tweetie.app into Twitter.app”. I bet there are a lot of unhappy Twitter iPhone/iPad client developers today.

There are plenty of wonderful places in the UK outside of London that are considerably cheaper. If you’re a freelancer, there might not be any need for you to live in The City.