I left Denver a couple years back because of the pollution, my allergies are now pretty much gone. It's far to dry and arid for my tastes. The city is definitely better about work life balance than other tech hubs, or maybe they play too much and too hard in CO. Driving is insane there, so many reckless drivers that I bought a bigger vehicle just to feel safe on the highways.
I went to DSW most years, i never found it something to write home about. Mostly people looking for funding
What countries have "less terrifying politics"?
The Develop Denver (iirc the name) week is much better.
It probably correlates closely with the democracy index [1].
To go out on a limb and propose my own dumb hypothesis, I would wager that it is at least somewhat inversely proportional to percentage of tax base spent on military expenditures [2]. Countries that are growing or spending money on maintaining hegemony want to keep populations voting in a way that continues to support these industries. Distraction, polarization, disenfranchisement, and stoking nationalism are just a few of the ways this can be accomplished. Pacifist nations don't have these concerns and can focus more internally.
> The Develop Denver (iirc the name) week is much better.
I think Develop Denver was a couple of day conference. It is pretty good, more like a typical conference than a startup week. I went in 2019, not sure when/if they are restarting it. I wrote a recap of that event: https://www.culturefoundry.com/cultivate/digital-agency-life... but it looks like the domain name didn't get renewed and now the conf site is occupied by another entity.
Develop Denver, IIRC, was an organized by many of the same folks at Denver Devs (a Denver tech chat group that started on Slack and moved to Discord): https://denverdevs.org/
Yeah, drivers in Austin are atrocious but while I was in the Denver metro it was nuts how many angry drivers would tailgate me at 80mph or cut me off at highway speeds seemingly for no reason.
I went to DSW most years, i never found it something to write home about. Mostly people looking for funding
What countries have "less terrifying politics"?
The Develop Denver (iirc the name) week is much better.