boringkyle

There was a blog post here by that title or similar. May replace "Facebook" with the "next big thing" or "accelerator" with "Y Combinator". But my Google search skills and HNsearch isn't helping me out here. Anyone bookmark it?

I'm from Toronto I've read some comparisons on costs of living, taxes, etc on blogs that are a few years old. Need an update whether it's worth moving from Toronto to SF, or for those that moved here, do you hate it here? And why? Is it really true stores close earlier in the Bay Area than in Toronto? Besides now having to deal with Canadian winter, what else do you love about SF? How diverse are the neighbourhoods in SF, compared to Tdot? What's your equivalent of Queen Street?

As HN is to hackers, is there a site for musicians?

Any blog posts on this? Just as coders may use APIs to expedite development, I often wondered how teams got such well-designed sites up in such a short period of time. Do they use templates? Themeforest? And after they launch and iterate, do they outsource some of the design work? Esp. if it's all technical founders? Is this frowned upon? Is this done at Y Combinator or at other accelerators?