Yeah, but unless you were from the area, you wouldn&#x27;t start a new business there. Nor would you look for employment there if you weren&#x27;t from the area.<p>&gt; This is a great region to start a family, and at the end of the day, your best employees are the ones tied to your office and location, not mercenary college grads shopping around every couple years for a raise.<p>In other words, you take what you can get from the local hiring pool and hope your best people don&#x27;t have better options. This is great if you&#x27;re looking to bootstrap a small business, but once you get past that stage it can be difficult to recruit executives with the market savvy you need to a small town. I&#x27;m all for remote work arrangements, but when developing a product strategy, colocation is a huge help.<p>Don&#x27;t get me wrong; I don&#x27;t mean to shit all over Buffalo -- I only used it as an example because the weather is awful. But as a city to build a tech startup in 2016, it&#x27;s not high on the list. Hell, the list pretty much stops after &quot;Silicon Valley&quot; and &quot;New York City&quot; -- which leads to its own problems (like how you can&#x27;t really afford to live in either city on less than $125k&#x2F;yr).