I recently moved out to Silicon Valley and it’s shocking to me how depressed the area looks. All the housing is cheap, ugly 70s/80s era architecture. Much of th

I recently moved out to Silicon Valley and it’s shocking to me how depressed the area looks. All the housing is cheap, ugly 70s/80s era architecture. Much of that is poorly maintained. Most retail storefronts are about the same. Add in all the poverty and homeless and I’m betting it would be impossible for any visitor to tell there was an economic boom unrivaled in all of civilization happening. Consider Venice in the 14-16th centuries, Amsterdam in the 17th century, London in the 18-19th centuries, New York in the early 20th century. SV is not building anything people are going to want to come see 400 years from now. It’s amazing how people there are happy to let people suffer to protect nothing special at all.