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title: "Jo Hastings Which word?  Agglomeration?  I've lived in Silicon Valley..."
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# Jo Hastings Which word?  Agglomeration?  I've lived in Silicon Valley...

*June 15, 2023 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to Max Marty's comment.*

Jo Hastings Which word?  Agglomeration?  I've lived in Silicon Valley most of my adult life--I'm pretty familiar with the advantages of big city living. It's a question of trade-offs. No, you won't find the high powered commercial real estate career you would have in NYC (unless maybe you served the Boston area), but you could find a comfortable real estate career of some kind.  No, you probably won't be starting a chip fab plant in Manchester, but you could start a firm that used new chips fabbed in Shenzhen.