geeks in the area (Score 1)

I think your asking yourself the wrong question. Geeks are really like fish and the go to where there is an abundant food source. If you look at the growth of the silicon valley you'll quickly realize that geeks look for an area with good jobs and a few other supporting factors. Yeah if you have DSL or a cable modem its nice but the real key is the job market their. You need large venture capital firms and a lot of money moving around in the tech industry before you should even think about trying to recruit nerds. What you should be doing is trying to have more internet startups appear in the area. A lot of the east coast is trying that but they are doing it all wrong and many of the startups just move to SV. So the first thing to do would be to bring the money into the area (venture capitalists and not large corporations).