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also, boston sucks. (lifelong native). its alright, but it can't compare to san fran and california in general. stanford is beautiful. MIT is ugly. list goes on.
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<p>I'll grant you that I prefer San Francisco to Boston.</p>
<p>But if we're talking about Stanford, we're not really talking about San Francisco. We're talking about Silicon Valley. And while it is true that Silicon Valley has lots of economic opportunities, let's be honest. It's not exactly the most exciting place in the world. Far from it, in fact. </p>
<p>Here's what Paul Graham had to say about it:</p>
<p>"For all its power, Silicon Valley has a great weakness: the paradise Shockley found in 1956 is now one giant parking lot. San Francisco and Berkeley are great, but they're forty miles away. Silicon Valley proper is soul-crushing suburban sprawl. It has fabulous weather, which makes it significantly better than the soul-crushing sprawl of most other American cities. But a competitor that managed to avoid sprawl would have real leverage. All a city needs is to be the kind of place the next traitorous eight look at and say "I want to stay here," and that would be enough to get the chain reaction started."</p>
<p>The bottom line is that Cambridge, Mass is far far more interesting than Palo Alto. I think even most Stanford people would concede that Palo Alto is not exactly the most interesting town in the world. </p>
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Sakky,</p>
<p>It's nice to discuss with you, although you tend to have a little bias in favoring MIT.
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<p>Ha! You know what the pot said to the kettle.</p>