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NYC is full of strange ideas and interesting people.

• electricslpnsld 9y ago
  ...and those strange and interesting people can still afford to live in NYC. Just look at the exodus of artists from San Francisco to Oakland, and now with landlords chasing everyone out of lofts in Oakland [1,2], from Oakland to LA. Despite paying lip service to the creative and the weird, the Bay Area has done very little to actually protect those folks [3]. [1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/29/oakland-artists-move-out-after-new-warehouse-rules/ http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2017/07/29/oakland-artists-... [2] https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/23/residents-in-salt-lick-warehouse-in-oakland-are-getting-evicted/ https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/03/23/residents-in-salt-lic... [3] https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/Artists-leaving-sf-bay-area-grass-is-greener-12382578.php https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/Artis...