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11 Nov 09

No matter how determined you are, it's hard not to be influenced
by the people around you. It's not so much that you do whatever a
city expects of you, but that you get discouraged when no one around
you cares about the same things you do.
Does anyone who wants to do great work have to live in a great city?
No; all great cities inspire some sort of ambition, but they aren't
the only places that do. For some kinds of work, all you need is
a handful of talented colleagues.
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- You don't have to live in a great city your whole life to benefit
  from it. The critical years seem to be the early and middle ones
  of your career. Clearly you don't have to grow up in a great city.
  Nor does it seem to matter if you go to college in one.
- find peers and encouragement.
  You seem to be able to leave, if you want, once you've found both.
- Unless you're sure what you want to do and where the leading center
  for it is, your best bet is probably to try living in several
  places when you're young.

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