Do smart people really live in [geographic location redacted] ?

A friend recently asked this question about a specific place, and the only answer I could come up with was:

There are really smart people living everywhere in the world.  [Geographic location redacted] is one of those places where the choice of living there is not one of the smart things those people did.

I like the universality of this answer, but Google's location services can't find [redacted] anywhere on Earth.