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As someone from the Rust Belt, the "San Francisco is awful" mentality is puzzling to me. Awful compared to what? Seattle? Some other world class city? If it's s
by dtwest 8y ago
As someone from the Rust Belt, the "San Francisco is awful" mentality is puzzling to me. Awful compared to what? Seattle? Some other world class city? If it's so bad why don't you move somewhere cheap like Cleveland? Oh wait, you don't want to, because Cleveland is worse. For the record, I like Cleveland, I grew up there, real estate is affordable, it has a lake, but it is no San Francisco. That said, I'd still never call Cleveland awful, it's better than where most of the world lives. Have some perspective.
- carlivar 8y agoI think if you figured out a way to compare Cleveland to SF while factoring in cost of living, or just real estate, Cleveland would do pretty well in a showdown. SF is picked on because people pay such a premium to live there (including employers via the necessary high wages), and it is becoming less and less worth that premium as tech extends out of the bay area.
- the_clarence 8y agoTravel the world and you will see that indeed. Most large cities are pretty awesome, affordable and don’t have that much homeless people.
- space_fountain 8y agoI don't know. Maybe mostly because I have family I'm very much consider moving back to at least NEO after I finish working at my current job for a year and that's with knowing I'd take a pretty big pay cut. Certainly if I could make the same money anywhere I wouldn't stay in SF.