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Originally Posted by mousquet
They're building brand new biz districts in Marseille and Nice right now.
Granted, you'd probably need a few skilled lawyers to deal with the EU and local regulations, but other than that, the law is stable, democratic and fairly predictable, so I think new fortunes are quite possible over those spots.
It's not like they were doomed and forever belonged to the past, huh. That's only stereotypes. There are people hungry for new business anywhere.
Especially in my country, actually.
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More than lawyers, what all would-be tech zones need, in Europe and the US and everywhere, that almost none has like CA does is venture capital . . . very rich people willing to put money in startup businesses that are losing money and probably will lose money for years. CA has them because it has the earlier generations of successful tech multimillionaires and billionaires; people who appreciate the possibilities because they made their money that way.
Incidentally, I didn't say being steeped in history caused one to be doomed. As I did say, it attracts tourists literally by the busload (and planeload and shipload) and by itself it doesn't inhibit the new. But it doesn't foster or stimulate it either. It's the visionary money in CA that stimulates that.
Since you mentioned lawyers, though, that's what San Francisco, my town, provided the tech world in the early days. SF's office buildings were full of tech and finance guys and many still are although a lot of tech is moving out of funky bare brick-walled rehabbed warehouses in South of Market into the high-rises too (or at least they were before they started working from home and I think will again). As you probably know, our city's tallest building is named after and mostly inhabited by a tech giant.