Anyone moved outside of the US to bootstrap your business?
lsc: the SF bay area has enormous quality of life advantages for the common nerd, when compared to anywhere else I've lived.(granted, which only includes other parts of the US.)  - but just on a personal level, being a nerd is a very lonely thing most places, and that loneliness gets distracting after a while.  In the bay area, you are no longer weird or different.  Hell, I can walk down the street to the hacker dojo, and be the dumbest guy in a room full of people (well, maybe not the dumbest, but certainly below average.  My point is that in the central valley, it was pretty rare to meet others with my mental abilities.   The bay area teaches me humility.)I think this might have something to do with the disparity in wages;  standards are just higher around here.  Yeah, you pay more for a person, but the pool from which you can hire is so much richer.  if you can choose good people, you can get better deals in the bay area than most other places.