Now, I upvoted this as an indicator that I live in London too. But I see inconsistent numbers on other locations (such as a comment with 2 votes and two "me too" replies). Seems like a better solution is required.
Thanks for these recommendations - I'll be sure to check them out. Thanks to sharpn too, I hadn't heard of The Hub before and it looks like a great resource.
Brno, second largest city of Czech Republic (around 500k of people). Great city to live, there are a lot of tech companies around, but mostly just larger ones: Red Hat (biggest development center outside of US), IBM, IBA, Accenture, Honeywell and so on.
Unfortunately there is nearly no startup scene here.
That depends very much on the season. I've lived in Toronto for 2 1/2 years, winters are doable but there are a few days when the cold is just unimaginable (until you move to Northern Ontario that is), summers are pretty hot.
Traditionally the summers are when the garbage collectors go on strike...
Other than that it's a great city to live in, for the most part nice people, great and affordable food, office space is priced reasonably.
The garbage strike was nice this year, you could see the dumps from just about every train going through the city. I'm glad I live outside of Toronto where our garbage collectors have the common decency to actually do their jobs through the summer, I'm fine with striking in the winter when the garbage will freeze though.
The whole GTA is a nice area, it goes from purely rural to purely urban in an area small enough to travel for everything.
The weather can be great, right now its being torturous. Lots of thunderstorms, rain and with humidity every temperature is +10 in the shade. God forbid you work outside in the sun, then it feels like +20. I'm amazed people don't just drop dead from the heat, but then I grew up in Northern England where temperatures (with humidity) rarely break 20C in the summer.
Winter is much more tolerable than summer, but that's because it's easier to wear 3 layers of clothes than it is to wear -2 layers of clothes. Personally I enjoy all year more than I did back in the UK, but that's probably because there is actually seasons here and not the 2 weeks of winter and 2 weeks of summer of my childhood.
Yeah, I see what you're saying. Sarajevo has a similar climate. I used to live in Florida, it was HOT 24/7 and to be honest, I'd rather live there. The thing I really love about Toronto is that it's like NYC just.....safer! :D
Toronto isn't the safest, compared to other big cities it's certainly very good, but considering the commuter regions have crime rates well below the national average it's certainly better than the other big cities.
The GTA is an amazing place to live. I'm in Halton (which has the lowest crime rate for all the GTA) and crime just isn't considered where I live. I believe the biggest crime in my area is car break-ins in the Cineplex parking lot, which now has a squad car permanently parked there every night.
Considering you can have a job in either Toronto or Hamilton and have a crime rate 1/3 the national average, or a violent crime rate of 1/10th the national average, I'd say Halton is the perfect place for anyone with kids.
Just some additional data on this for interested readers:
Chicago (2.8M) and Toronto (2.5M) are very similar cities, in size and standard of living. Toronto has about 1/7th the homicide rate. In 2008, Chicago had 509 homicides
I am constantly annoyed at all the homicides I have to step over every time I get off the homicide-laden trains in Chicago. I wish they'd do something about it. I see at least three at the Jackson stop every day. Sometimes there are even homicides in my back yard! It takes them forever to pick up, and if you just take them and put them by the garbage cans, the garbage trucks won't take them.
It's almost enough to make me want to move to Canada.
Hi there, I live in Austin and just went to New York for the first time last week, but didn't spend any time doing tech-stuff. How is the community up there? Was the transition to NYC easy for you?
So far I've gotten an impression that the best NYC techies work in finance and startups are left with those who couldn't get in. It may sound harsh, but that is what I hear from people here.
I miss Austin a lot and I'm not alone: wearing a UT t-shirt in Central Park almost always leads to a random conversation with an ex-Austinite.
Cool - nice area: the very first time I came to Italy, I stayed in Romano d'Ezzelino. You have no contact information, so it's impossible for me to contact you about a spritz or otherwise saying 'hi'.
What a coincidence. I live exactly in Romano. I'll be back to university in october. If you'd like to go out for a spritz in that period, you may contact me: stefano.dissegna [at] gmail.
Noticed one more "Copenhagen, Denmark" comment, so there is at least one more than the two of us. ;) I'll leave it unsaid whether that is sufficient for a meetup, but rarely turn down invitations to have beer, so ...
As a successful social skydiver, do you have any recommendations for hacker-oriented events in Seattle around Sep. 21-27? I'll be in town visiting my family and geek brethren, and often experience a paucity of recreational activities during such visits.
Rockwall, on Lake Ray Hubbard. I have a friend up that way that I haven't seen in a while. By the way, Buddy Guy is coming this weekend. Yall should go if you like blues or guitar, or a good live show, or...
Amsterdam here. I'd be interested in a meetup, but I just organized a meetup (non-HN) that went pretty horribly by most standards (people pledging to come and then bailing).
Im staying in neukoelln so neukoelln/kreuzberg is great for me. lets watch this thread for a few more hours to see if anyone else shows up and then pick a spot for say, tomorrow?
or rather a tiny town just south of it. Does everyone else listing these big cities actually live in the city. Or are you just meaning "really close too"? Just interested (because just about everyone has listed a major city so far).
Not off hand, but maybe that's a reason to have one.
Is there an interest in having a Minneapolis HN meetup? Maybe something like beers at Brit's? There might be some momentum at the moment: Y Combinator was mentioned in the Strib's business section today.
I like Kobe very much. It feels like a very 'international' place downtown, but it's not overly large. Once you leave downtown, things can get very local. It's also also just a hop away from Osaka and two from Kyoto, which makes it a day trip away from a good chunk of Japanese culture.
I'm afraid I can't compare it much with other cities, as I've spent much more time in Kobe than anywhere else, and it's only been a few months so far.
I'll just butt in to say Kobe is great. Lots of character and interesting places to hang out in. Has it's own charm, different from Osaka or Nagoya (which I really like too).
A recent American addition here, still confused about directions and I don't leave the house without a train map and enough cab-fare to take me to Tasmania and back, just in case I am lost.
I have been to the City, St. George, Ashfield, Burwood, Newtown, and Lidcombe. My working from home 15hr/day doesn't help my exploration of the city either :-(
Toronto, Ontario here. I'll be visiting some friends in Ottawa at the end of this month. It'll be my first time there, any suggestions for good places to eat?
Mexican: You will have to look it up but Ahora on Dalhousie is a little hole in the wall, but I think its amazing.
I love food if you couldn't tell. Another thing I would suggest is just get your friends to take you to the byward market and just walk around down there until you find(smell) something you like. Lots of trendy spots down there, lots of gems.
Last suggestion is if you go to the market and you're interested in having some casual drinks Mambo (http://www.mambonuevolatino.com/) has an incredible rooftop deck, the food is pretty great and they have happy hour with cheaper drinks and half price Tapas.
No Prob. I like Mambo a fair bit, we have went there the last 2 years for my girlfriends birthday. Their Mojitos are awesome and they server desperado(tequilla beer) which I like quite a bit.
My company is based in Copenhagen, Denmark, where my partner lives. But I live most of the time in Barcelona. You should come to this:
http://www.sunsandandstartups.com
I work in Solana Beach, and am looking for an apartment in SD to cut down my hour commute from Fallbrook. Any recomendations on decent areas of the city?
I'm in Clairemont right off the 5. It's about 15-20 to Solana Beach from here if you don't go at peak hours. Pretty much everything north of here until Oceanside is fairly expensive, unless you want to go way east. Just try to find somewhere near the freeway as that will save you the most time.
> It's probably too late for this comment to get noticed by anyone, but can I suggest people register with http://www.hackrtrackr.com/ ??