windywave wrote:
Texas, Chicago, and Pittsburgh solve those problems while also being in the middle of the country.
As for knocking Arkansas, Wal-Mart and Tyson seem to being just fine.
Depends on the talent you need. It's really hard to get top programming talent (read: $500K+) outside of Silicon Valley and Seattle.
I have a buddy who moved his company from Silicon Valley to Texas absolutely sure it was a great business decision due to taxes, etc. He moved back a year later.
Uncle A. is on the right track. The Pittsburgh area is one of the "little Silicon Valley" competitors due to CMU.