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Re:'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a... by jpatokal on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @07:33AM (#17029010)
Silicon Valley became what it is today because there was cheap industrial land for chip fabs and random startups.
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Re:'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a... by jpla on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @09:37AM (#17029664)
Debatable. As far as I know it wasn't really until around 2000 that Silicon Valley became dominate enough to really set it apart from other regional technology centers like Dallas, Boston or Pittsburgh.

In any case that doesn't really help Berlin if it takes, say, five years for its housing market to catch up to its European neighbors.

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Re:'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a... by evanlivingston on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @11:23AM (#17030518)
What? You're overlooking an enormous number of factors.

If it's cheap industrial land alone that made Silicon Valley how did Texas, Nevada, The Midwest and other places miss out on a tech business boom?

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Re:'Google go home': the Berlin neighbourhood fighting off a... by wbl on Wednesday May 09, 2018 @04:14PM (#17033586)
Texas has TI which is a big tech firm.
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