Berlin is now in a position to usurp London as the startup capital of Europe
This was shared earlier: &lt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11983154" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11983154</a> &gt;<p>I&#x27;ll repeat the comment I gave there:<p>&gt;I don&#x27;t view Berlin as a viable replacement as a top start-up hub because wages in Berlin are simply ludicrously low.<p>&gt;With Google&#x27;s investment in the Zurich office, and the much, much more internationally competitive wages you can earn in Switzerland, I think Zurich could be better positioned.<p>&gt;There&#x27;s certainly no reason to believe that specifically an EU city would be the next to take off. And in most other ways, the Swiss job market is just much more competitive.<p>&gt;I&#x27;m also depressed by the article using a picture of an anti-human violently wide open co-working space as a stereotype of a thriving start-up culture. Nothing says <i>you&#x27;re being totally taken advantage of</i> like a wide open floor plan.