# College towns around Las big as NY in terms of tech startups?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 10, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392 "2012-03-10T17:23:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ClarenceClancy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@ClarenceClancy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClarenceClancy)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392/1 "2012-03-10T17:23:07Z")

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Rather than research all these areas, would you just tell me a few keywords about each of these college towns, if you’ve lived in them for more than 3 months?

Berkeley

Stanford

UCLA Area

UC-Irvine

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**Author:** ![ClarenceClancy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df788c/32.png) [@ClarenceClancy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ClarenceClancy)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2012, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392/2 "2012-03-10T17:56:39Z")

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> [@ClarenceClancy](#):
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> Rather than research all these areas, would you just tell me a few keywords about each of these college towns, if you’ve lived in them for more than 3 months?
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> Berkeley
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> Stanford
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> UCLA Area
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> UC-Irvine

Also tell me what you know about San Jose U and Santa Clara U areas, if there is much of anything to say.

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**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392/4 "2012-03-31T17:18:27Z")

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What’s weird about this question is that NYC is not all that big as far as tech startups. I can imagine many places being bigger than NYC in terms of tech startups. NYC is more well known for entrepreneurship in food, fashion, and media categories.

Also, Berkeley is not in southern california. Its just outside San Francisco. Which, might have heard, has some repute in the tech startup arena.

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**Author:** ![JKilez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e5b9ba/32.png) [@JKilez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKilez)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392/5 "2012-03-31T18:59:38Z")

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> [@ClarenceClancy](#):
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> Berkeley
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> Stanford

> [@ClarenceClancy](#):
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> Also tell me what you know about San Jose U and Santa Clara U areas, if there is much of anything to say.

I can tell you something–these are all the same area.

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**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\
**Post date:** [March 31, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/college-towns-around-las-big-as-ny-in-terms-of-tech-startups/615392/6 "2012-03-31T23:21:03Z")

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> [@JKilez](#):
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> I can tell you something–these are all the same area.

And you need a garage.