sophia-antipolis

That is what they have done in France with Sophia-Antipolis, and in the Moscow suburbs with Skolkovo.

In France, taxes more than double the petrol price [1], so you only see suburban designs in very rich places (namely, Sophia-Antipolis).

Is this finally what the Sophia-Antipolis team has been working on?

>France, on Sophia-Antipolis living in the Alps Isn't that region very expensive CoL compared to the local wages?

Here in Sophia-Antipolis, there are at least two dozen.

What happened to Sophia-Antipolis near Antibes?

In Sophia-Antipolis, where I was situated it was a common practice to put a clause in the contract that you won't be paid, even though by law should be paying you.

Personally I left a big city for a nice hydro-geologically stable place in the French Alps, a place honestly NOT chosen by some special calculus but simply looking for a fresh enough in summer, cheap and served enough enlarging myself out of Sophia-Antipolis (a kind-of EU Silicon Valley).

France, on Sophia-Antipolis living in the Alps, "nearby" but still 99% remote.

Well, I can't count myself as a community since here I'm almost alone in IT physical community terms, but I'm an ex-urban (from a big city) person who decide to go rural, not much rural, in the sense that I'm still "near enough" to have a certain level of services, good enough connections etc, but still rural in a low-density area (French Alps, ~60Km from Sophia-Antipolis though)...