Editor's Pick: Escape From Silicon Valley

Escape From Silicon Valley

Rob Enderle Nov 23, 2015 5:00 AM PT

I started planning to escape the Valley a long time ago, due to very high taxes, a crumbling infrastructure, worsening crime, a massive increase in traffic, and a rather nasty water shortage problem. My wife and I originally planned to escape to Belize but found the unreliable infrastructure, lack of good medical care, and massive crime problem there were not conducive to our continued survival. [More...]

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