Washington Versus Silicon Valley

Re:Washington Versus Silicon Valley by anamax on Friday August 07, 2009 @06:13PM (#748651)

> Austria for example, and Germany. They have social services that are built in and aren't nearly as bloated as the US government.

And, they're about as diverse as Minnesota.

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Re:Washington Versus Silicon Valley by cvg on Friday August 07, 2009 @06:54PM (#748696)

There's New Zealand if you want more diversity.

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Re:Washington Versus Silicon Valley by anamax on Saturday August 08, 2009 @04:24AM (#749115)

78% European is diverse?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand#Demography

And, we're talking about less than 4.5m people.

Compare it with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Chicago , which has more people than live in all of New Zealand's 4 largest cities and has almost as many people as NZ's 16 main urban areas. And, that's not counting Chicago's suburbs.

Chicago is only moderately diverse for a large American city - there are less than 50 languages spoken by more than 1000 people.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Los_Angeles for diversity (which has more people than all of new zealand's major urban areas, and I'm still ignoring suburbs and other major adjoining cities.)

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