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Jimmy Wales: London Is Better For Tech Than "Dreadful" Silicon Valley
Mickeycaskill writes: Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has praised London as a tech hub, saying its cultural assets make it an ideal place to do business and superior to Silicon Valley as a place to live. “I meet people around London and they ask ‘when do you go back to San Francisco?’ assuming I’m here for a few days, but I live in London,” he said at the launch of Tech.London. “There’s always this bit of British self-deprecation about ‘oh well, things are so great in Silicon Valley’. But I can tell you, things aren’t that great in Silicon Valley. London has all these incredible advantages of a tech scene, but it’s also a place people want to live. Nobody wants to live in Silicon Valley – it’s dreadful out there. London is this incredible cultural city, it’s at the crossroads of the world. In the US you have San Francisco for tech, Los Angeles for movies and Washington for politics. In London you have all these things. It’s a great place to do business.”
If you like "high culture", have money, and don't mind crowds then London is great. If you prefer other things not so much.
Oh come now. London has many more things to offer, such as pigeons.
Er, and dickheads www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmWN9VYZXfY .
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I'm not sure that the people he's meeting are as happy with him as he thinks.
Sounds to me like a polite way of saying "It's it about time that you get the F* out of our country?"
What about the Ant People? They owe us money.
If you are already very rich then London can be nice
Incidentally, the Wikipedia donation campaign is currently underway.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Why is the parent modded Flamebait? Is there something inaccurate about his post?
Just another day in Paradise
By comparison, from my land in 25 minutes I drive past my neighbor's waterfall on the other side of my canyon, past the fjord, down between the mountains and the ocean and into town. You share a ride with little personal space with strangers in an underground tunnel.
Some of those strangers are interesting people. You can talk to a dozen different people, each with a unique perspective on the world, some of them quite insightful or funny, during lunch. And a completely different dozen on the way home from work.
I can understand why you'd enjoy some beautiful scenery and being 25 minutes from the next living soul, but it seems to me a little like the difference between reading "The Road to Character" and reading Slashdot.
I moved from London to somewhere where I can walk to unspoiled moor land from my house.
So you are saying London is nice and all, but you were really expecting moor?
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
As everyone starts to insult where everybody else lives.
You could at least tell us where, so we can insult your place intelligently.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.