&gt; I see none or very little of that in English speaking communities.<p>Are you sure? Or do you just notice it less because the place names mean less to you personally?<p>Palto Alto &#x2F; Silicon Valley &#x2F; San Francisco Bay Area (roughly the same places, right?) get mentioned all the time.<p>You know what&#x27;s in Redmond, right? And what&#x27;s in Utah? :)<p>Wwhen a news article talks about popular software&#x2F;service being developed outside of California, they usually spend a little paragraph or so on the place (blablabla cold winters in Maine blabla data centre bla--just made that one up btw).<p>Greetings from the land that brought you Python, a shortest-path algorithm and compact-discs ;-)