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Get your Geek on: Wired Magazine's Best Geek Cities
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Are you a geek and seek out your own kind when traveling across America? Well you're in luck. Wired Magazine has rated America's geekiest towns based on a complicated formula involving, among other factors, proximity to engineering schools, availability of free Wi-Fi, personal ads posted on Geek 2 Geek, and comic book stores per capita.
The magazine doesn't go so far as to call out the geekiest city in all of America, but it does list the top ten;
Seattle
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Austin
Orlando
Raleigh-Durham
Pittsburgh
New York City
Boston
Washington DC
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
btdj1 Mar 2nd 2007 2:34PM
NYC geekier then Omaha or Kansas City? Right!
George Mar 2nd 2007 2:48PM
WHAT?? No mention of the heart of geek-dom, Silicon Valley? (Milpitas would be perfect, but I'll settle for San Jose....) And I suppose we should give equal geek-time to Hwy 128 in Massachusetts....
shelby Mar 2nd 2007 3:18PM
What?!! NYC your kidding thats the center of fashion in the US
tiffany Mar 2nd 2007 5:31PM
it's not a very dependable list because it's based on sheer numbers. of course the bigger cities are going to be at the top of the list. los angeles a geeky city? give me a break!!
Cheryl Ross Mar 2nd 2007 5:34PM
Does that make me Ms. Geek since I have lived in half of the cities listed? I love these places!
char Mar 2nd 2007 5:50PM
Surely other factors in the complicated formula for geekiness include: boring ugly women, boring ugly men, 0% charisma. I bet Raleigh-Durham is number one in geekiness!
Mikey Butta Mar 5th 2007 11:18AM
How in the world can New York City be listed as a top 10 Geekiest City???? Can someone please explain that too me cause i dont see anything geeky about New York. W T F ???? If anything, New York is one of the most thoroughest cities...Phuck Geeky...
annie saub Mar 2nd 2007 6:38PM
well here is an over complicated formula that didnt work again. Everybody knows that Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is the geek capital of the world.
tjs11452 Mar 2nd 2007 7:01PM
I currently live in Albany, New York. Which has it's share of geeks. But Sioux Falls, South Dakota-formerly a two horse town- is rapidly becoming Geekville, U.S.A. The women aren't geeks, but a good portion of them have beer bellys and moustaches.
Angela Mar 2nd 2007 7:07PM
Surely other factors in the complicated formula for geekiness include: boring ugly women, boring ugly men, 0% charisma. I bet Raleigh-Durham is number one in geekiness!
Char? Sounds like you took serious geeky thought into this, perhaps you fit into the same boring ugly and no charisma category as well? What happened, did the dukies or wolfpack beat your ungeeky basketball team????
M A DeMa Mar 2nd 2007 7:17PM
you forgot LosAlamos, the truly geekiest city anywhere
Becky Mar 2nd 2007 7:24PM
How can they calculate the geekiness a city is by the number of Circuit City stores there are? Why not calculate by the number of computer parts stores instead?
Margaret Mar 2nd 2007 7:24PM
Seattle geeky?????
Just because we have Microsoft, perhaps that is why we are perceived as having a 'geeky' persona?
Well.....Wronggggg!
Seattle is a lively, outgoing city with beautiful people, in spite of the winter weather.
So much to do and see - so little time......off I go....
The 'geek' formula is in error in Seattle's case.
For shame!
But on the other hand, perhaps people will not move here and stay here if we meet the 'geeky' criteria....Mmmmmmmm!
Vicky B. Mar 2nd 2007 7:26PM
Apparently no one involved in this survey has seen the folks in southern Indiana!
Tom Mar 2nd 2007 7:41PM
I was born and raised in Seattle............Get over it Margret....TOTAL GEEKSVILLE!!!!!!!!!!!!Either the nerd herd or the yups with sticks so far up their arse!!! It's a JOKE here now!!!!!!!!!!!!
char Mar 3rd 2007 1:56PM
Surely other factors in the complicated formula for geekiness include: boring ugly women, boring ugly men, 0% charisma. I bet Raleigh-Durham is number one in geekiness!
Char? Sounds like you took serious geeky thought into this, perhaps you fit into the same boring ugly and no charisma category as well? What happened, did the dukies or wolfpack beat your ungeeky basketball team????
Angela: Hmmmmmm....The hunks I date disagree with you. You Tarheads take your sports entirely too seriously. Incidentally, my team is No. 1 in the nation.