> New York is the capital of food, fashion, music, finance, diplomacy, culture and news<p>It's also full of humble and modest people ;-)<p>I appreciate the fine rantiness of the post (and the one it's responding to, for that matter), but I have one serious criticism:<p>> The big things (tm) in tech right now are social, mobile, and local. These work best when you have a lot of people and a lot of stuff all mashed together. It’s not a coincidence that Foursquare is happening in New York and not Palo Alto.<p>The problem here is that you're building stuff that _only_ works in super-dense urban areas like New York. We need local and social and mobile stuff that works for the rest of the world too. If Foursquare's ambitions are limited to NY that's legitimate, but your argument is sort of specious: that Palo Alto is inferior because they aren't building applications that don't actually work well in places like Palo Alto (let alone all the still-less dense parts of the country).<p>Oh, and New York's food carts have nothing on Portland. So there!