One of the things I&#x27;ve realized travelling around the world is that the bottom 95% of the tech scene looks remarkably similar everywhere in the world (including SF &amp; SV). The difference is whether the top 5% of the scene exists at all and, if it does, how big it is.<p>It&#x27;s always a hard thing to gauge because the interests of the top 5% are in protecting themselves from the bottom 95% of noise. You need to be invited behind the curtain, so to speak and there&#x27;s ever increasing curtains everywhere you look once you&#x27;re in.<p>Thus, it can be very hard to comparatively judge startup scenes by city because you never know how your view is being biased.