Portland, Bend, Boulder, Austin. People are looking for the same young, urban, progressive environment that the Bay Area has provided since the Gold Rush, it se

Portland, Bend, Boulder, Austin. People are looking for the same young, urban, progressive environment that the Bay Area has provided since the Gold Rush, it seems. There is something innate the Bay Area that has nothing to do with tech, but tech is in the middle of it and has become the boogeyman of ails to those currently living in SF. It's a misdirection for NIMBYs to focus the agitation towards because the more they deny, the more valuable and scare the homes in this special market become. I think fighting NIMBYism is a sisyphean obligation for the Bay Area. People will always want to live here -- tech jobs or not.