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Philly's got lots of great restaurants most of which are BYOB, plenty of cool live music spots, great bars, cheap taxis, way more affordable downtown housing, etc. A friend of mine pays what I'm paying in rent: he lives in a spacious apartment overlooking the waterfront in Philly; I live in a tiny third-floor walk-up a mile away from the closest T stop outside Davis Square. Crime is starting to become a problem there again, but other than that it's a great place to live.
Well, what if it isn't the raw number that makes a city a startup hub, but having a certain minimum amount of startups? That argument would then account for small towns not being as startup-friendly as London, but London (or Boston or New York) being an equal to Silicon Valley. Maybe the startup friendliness of a town looks more like a logarithmic graph than a linear one.