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San Jose. Capital of Silicon Valley.
Probably one of the most family friendly & educated cities in the country. Also the capital of American Technological Advancements. The city has geek written all over it.
I would say it's Seattle. The Seattle metro area is geek central, so it's right up there with Silicon Valley, I would say both areas are tied for first place in this category.
I think Los Alamos, New Mexico was more-or-less created for scientists and researchers. It's number 7 in people with Doctorates, not that that necessarily means geeks.
Wired, I guess in 2007, made a list of cities to "get your geek on." Some interesting nominees: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is on the list and looks to be the tops for the rate of comic book stores per-capita while Orlando, Florida is listed as high in "Circuit City stores per-capita" and does well in comic book stores too. Geeks "looking for love" are apparently best off in Boston and DC. DC was also good for geeks "looking for cash" as in tech-jobs.
Provo, Utah strikes me as maybe also possible. Utah has a, perhaps surprisingly, large number of science fiction writers and Provo was in the top 20 for scientists. On top of that Mormons have kind of a geek/dork image whether they are or not.
DC. Foreign policy nerds, economists, lawyers, data-analyzing bureaucrats, etc.
Geek central
definitely not. dc is one of the only big cities without a huge hipster and yuppie population. it's a more professional city and lawyers aren't geeky. geeks to me are yuppies and hipsters. sf, seattle, and boston.
it's a more professional city and lawyers aren't geeky. geeks to me are yuppies and hipsters. sf, seattle, and boston.
Hip is like the opposite of geek.
And lawyers are hip??
DC is very geeky. Not known as a trendy or fashion-forward town.
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