[rosndo]

Restaurants, flight connections, quality of services, friendly tax regime. Restaurants obviously being the most important metric.

Sure, it’ll lose out to London, Paris, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, …

But it won’t lose out to cities like Manchester or Liverpool.

[tclancy]

>Restaurants obviously being the most important metric

This reminds me a bit of Eddie Izzard's impression of the Queen: "A plumber? What on Eaaarrrthh is that?" Not everyone can eat at a restaurant nightly. Not everyone can eat. And some of the reason for that is designed into the current system.

[doldols]

Sure, but HN audience is primarily rich tech workers, entrepreneurs and temporarily embarrassed versions of those.

In this context it makes sense to look at things from that perspective. On reddit it would of course be different.