So... pretty much like the US (with a few exceptions like Silicon Valley or Austin, Tx)?
Not every city in America is San Francisco, Seattle, or Austin, but neither one state nor one city is as technologically dysfunctional as their European counterparts.
Just the last sentence is wrong. The EU isn't a mess in terms of IT, it's merely irrelevant on the global consumer market.
As someone who's spent a significant amount of time in each of those cities and all around both the US and Europe, I can firmly state that this is _not_ true.
The cultural differences between European cities is vastly overrated. On the other hand, the differences across the US - particularly differences between urban metropolitan areas and everywhere else - are massively understated.
What about the cultural differences between SF (or Detroit, Seattle, any other big city) with small town America?
Financially that's also true. The median income in Bulgaria is a few hundred dollars per month. The extreme variance between the countries at the top of the EU and the bottom, is far beyond anything you see in the US between states. There's an eight to ten fold GDP per capita gap between Bulgaria and countries like Denmark, Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden. In the US, there's close to a two fold gap between Massachusetts or New York and West Virginia or Mississippi.
Honestly - Have you lived in all of them, like me?
> city is as technologically dysfunctional as their European counterparts.
You mean.... Like Estonia that is 100% covered by LTE, while RI has dead zones? Or the fact that FinTech startup funding is highest in London?
Geez!!! I didn't think that nationalist ignoramuses have spread to HN.
