In Chicago there are lots of interesting companies getting started. Austin is hot. I think part of that is that not everyone wants to live in a quonset hut in Milpitas. I don't care about Larry Ellison's suits or his Japanese garden. I'll take Boston any day.
People seem to have a better sense of what's important in living a life.
Boston University in photonics, for instance. MIT remains the leading institution for technology business creation. If the companies founded by MIT alumni formed an independent nation, it would be the 24th-largest economy in the world, somewhere between South Africa and Thailand, the study said. About 150 new MIT-related companies are founded each year, according to the study. Interestingly, Silicon Valley is a leading destination for MIT-bred entrepreneurs.