Ask HN: Where in mainland Europe would you choose to bootstrap a startup?

I hear good things about Berlin.

Berlin has an amazing startup scene with fairly open people. I got easily in contact with CEOs of Soundcloud and Blinkist. Try also to connect with hub:raum , which is the Telekom incubator in Berlin. Great stuff.

Other than that, I would probably go for Paris or Zurich, dependent on your startup idea.

In general: Try to find a place, where like-minded startups are situated. This swarming of common interests is indeed very valuable for skill, experience, and knowledge transfer.

Berlin is great.

Barcelona seems to be starting to get into the startup scene.

I have no experience with this but the Netherlands is supposed to make this a lot easier with the DAFT if you're from the US.

I know it's not Europe, but how about Morocco: http://www.quora.com/Startups/What-are-the-coolest-startup-c...

Why not eastern Europe. Budapest comes to mind. They do have a well educated tech work force. The politics may be inconvenient but its the EU after all.

Cost is low and it is a real adventure :-)

If anybody has a convincing idea, I'll come along (fluent german and english). Hungarian will work after a while.

Sibiu, Romania.

Awesome mountain range. Great food. Low costs. Very friendly people. And two major hubs nearby with a growing startup culture (Cluj and Bucharest).