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This rebuttal is hilarious.

Kelly's TL:DR summary at the end should have been:

• NYC is more fun! And interesting! I'm 23. • I work at a big company, but startups have happened here at least once. • What do I know? I'm only 23.

The original article was articulate if a bit bombastic. The most salient points, which Kelly failed to address, were in my mind:

• The Bay Area has a culture and history of tech innovation • The Bay Area has thousands of VCs and venture money • The Bay Area has top engineering schools • The Bay Area has tons (metric!) more startups, entrepreneurs, hackers, coders, etc.

The most telling sentence in Kelly's post is: "The social component of a real city with museums, clubs, venues, pubs, bars and barcades is important."

A "real city"! Wow. By Kelly's estimation there must be at most only 2 or 3 real cities on the entire planet.



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