The only advantage listed of the Midwest over the west&#x2F;east coast is cost of living which you would expect to go up once the long promised &quot;Silicon Prairie&quot; takes shape. Silicon Prairie News is a cool site to see regional news on tech but I&#x27;ve always found it to overhype itself time and time again. There are certainly quite a few growing tech companies in the area in the same way that there were growing engineering companies in the past. It&#x27;s hard for me to see there ever being a &quot;boom&quot; in tech that makes it comparable to Silicon Valley. We just don&#x27;t have the investment capital or the human resources to compete despite our cost of living advantages.