Ask HN : Is it worth it to go live and work in Silicon Valley?

[Pobe]

Recently I met an investor urging me to go live in Silicon Valley. He told me I had my place there and that I could surely work it out based on what I have to offer. He goes there 2 weeks per month.

I'm from Québec, Canada. I travelled enough to know it would be alright personnally for me to move to another place. My background is marketing and i've been working on the past three years as a CEO/Founder/Project manager with team composed of designers and developpers for two distinct project.

The one I'm on it right now is Tribu. A gamified real life action-oriented social network which encourages benefic behavior. (Still working on the pitch thought)

For you people over there, I'm wondering, what it is Silicon Valley will bring me and Tribu that is more than I have right now?

[gamechangr]

You should move for sure. Here is a great article by a fellow Canadian debating the same issue.

http://jakek.posterous.com/just-do-it-move-to-silicon-valley

Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/startuphubs.html http://paulgraham.com/revolution.html

The best 1% of the world moves to the Valley. That synergy is impossible to duplicate.

[eli_gottlieb → gamechangr]

>The best 1% of the world moves to the Valley.

I would ironically shout, "We are the 99%!", but I'm not being ironic. The presumption that the Valley contains the best people on Earth is simply wrong. It contains the most ambitious white or East-Asian upper-middle-class web application developers aiming for start-up careers after Ivy League or similar educations... in the world.

That's not actually "the best 1% of the world".

[true_religion → eli_gottlieb]

The best 1% in the world is an incredibly subjective statement.

[mmountford]

I think all of the action is happening in San Francisco. They have more tech jobs now than they did at the height of the dot com boom.

http://www.heliummagazine.com/sf-citi-to-make-san-francisco-...

[mirsadm]

I'd imagine it is easy to move there but getting a work visa for the US is the challenging part.

[coryl]

The question is how do you get there (and stay there) legally and affordably.

[MrMan]

Stay where you are.