Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities

Re:Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities by jk4930 on Sunday January 25, 2009 @03:41PM (#449484)

We still have a lot of "rule compliance costs", esp. when a company has employees, but you can hack this. In the worst case you just source this paper work out. The problem is more that Germany lost its startup-mentality. The last time we were a real startup country is 100 years ago.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities by beza1e1 on Sunday January 25, 2009 @05:24PM (#449635)

In the times of the German Economic Miracle there must have been a great startup-mentality here. That has been roughly 50 years ago.

And i'll throw Karlsruhe into the pot. It's called the internet capital of Germany, has lots of companies (especially web companies) and one of the best universities for computer science (and other technical fields). Living costs are relativly low.

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Re:Ask HN: Good Hacker Cities by fbailey on Tuesday January 27, 2009 @06:02AM (#451941)

I like Karlsruhe but I know nobody who calls Karlsruhe the internet capital of Germany. That goes to Berlin,Hamburg and Munich

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