Any Hackers in Middle America?
tptacek: I've got a company in Chicago; we're in the process of outgrowing our third office in 2 years. I can (have, in fact) given a litany of reasons why Chicago can be a better choice than the bay area, where my last company ran out of.(Half my company is in Manhattan, but our revenue isn't 50/50).I have friends in Indy with a thriving, well-funded company in the telephony space; I'll try to get one of them to chime in with why they moved their company from NYC metro to Indiana.Prior to Matasano, I spent 4 years at a VC-funded startup in Ann Arbor, MI --- Arbor Networks. Being in the middle of nowhere is great for the company and crappy for the employees; Arbor was the only credible option for a developer with a mortgage in Ann Arbor, so most of the team was stuck.