guadalajara

That according to my experience, coming from an 800,000 citizens city to Guadalajara second biggest city in Mexico.

You can read in the article how Guadalajara is a city where a lot of foreign companies host some offices.

Cities as Aguascalientes, Guadalajara and Queretaro are creating a big IT industry, with superior salaries and better work enviroments which are attracting developers from all around Mexico.

When a handful of guys in Guadalajara have a piece of every drug transaction in Southern California it's all going to look pretty peaceful unless you cross them.

Is Guadalajara becoming the Silicon Valley/SF of Mexico?

I'm currently living in Guadalajara and looking for a new gig.

If I were to give up my stationary life and become a nomad, I'd much rather have my transient basecamp in Guadalajara than Mexico City, to be honest.

I love Guadalajara -- one of my favorite cities to do business in, though it's not really a tourist-friendly city, unless you want to day-trip to Tequila or the Primavera Forest.

> I'm currently living in Guadalajara and looking for a new gig.

While I can't even pretend to know the answer as an east coast guy, amusingly, the one friend (real friend, not internet acquaintance) that I have that works at Twitter booked a trip to Guadalajara shortly after the IPO.

For anyone who might be visiting there, I recommend staying at the Fiesta Americana Grand Guadalajara Country Club, and dinner at La Tequila on Avenida Mexico -- you can't miss the flights of hyperlocal tequilas, and appetizers of escamoles and saltamontes.

I got to visit Guadalajara for work a few times and was blown away by it: a mega-city with mile after mile of factories, major CM's with enormous campuses, high skill educated workers, low cost of living.

"they just closed the factory in Minnesota that made the servers"....which they moved to Guadalajara, Mexico.

I'd rather (A) read out "chair.lion.knowledge" than (B) try to figure out the address of some little one-room shop in Guadalajara that's just an unmarked door on an unmarked corner and then hope the address-lookup round-trip resolves to the same place.

Oracle, IBM, Intel and Freescale has big development buildings here, actually GDC (Guadalajara Design Campus) just opened a new building.

Which once led an intern to submit an expense report for me for USD $2,800 for a dinner in Guadalajara.

But at the same time we are operating 100% in Mexico (Guadalajara, to be precise).