Where in Bay Area should a solo founder move to?
Suppose you’re a solo technical founder and work out of coffeeshops a lot. You want to move to the Bay Area to have chance encounters with other startup people. Where do you go?
Why choose the bay area? There are several other parts of the US where you'd have an equally good chance to run into founders. Seattle is an obvious one, but also Tampa, Miami, New York City, Austin, and others.
The bay is over. It’s a better place to have chance encounters with a thief than anything else.
Milpitas/Fremont, relatively cheap and safe
About 20 years ago would be a good location in the bay area.