Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is moving the business from St. Petersburg, FL to San Francisco, CA.

St. Petersburg was an accidental choice for Wikimedia, Wales said. It was a cheap place to live for Wales as he worked on Wikipedia, but he said the lack of tech talent made it hard to continue there.
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Although he was coy about immediate plans for Wikimedia upon its move to San Francisco, he said there is one thing that is certain for Wikimedia's employees.

"We'll be eating at more interesting restaurants now," he said.

At an ITFlorida conference in Orlando, Wales gave the Florida IT community a heads up on some of the differences between Florida and California.

Jimmy Wales, the founder of the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can edit, told the ITFlorida conference that a geek culture means that innovation and creativity often spring from grass-roots conversations in coffee shops and not from stuffier business networking events like the one where he was delivering those remarks. It also means that computer programmers and Web designers are viewed more like artists than business people.

"The creative class is creative and in my experience, the tech culture in Florida is not a geek culture, it's a business culture," Wales said. "This means that the most talented people are not here."

Harsh.

I met some awesomely talented IT geeks while living in Florida. Yes, they were business oriented, and quite successful.