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It's funny how we hand-wring about why there's only an anemic startup culture in Australia. Leaving aside the storied legal barriers, there's the fact that the E-3 visa makes it much easier for bright Australian technologists to decamp to the USA.

Until certain developments in my life made it an impossibility, I was thinking of moving to New York. Because it's the most unalike[1] English-speaking place with a vibrant startup scene I could think of to live in.

[1] unalike from Darwin. Even Perth is a megapolis compared to that beautiful flyspeck.



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