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Yeah. The longer you live in SF and the Bay Area, the more apparent it becomes how much it skates on tech, history, and intrinsic advantages like the weather an
by Reedx 7y ago
Yeah. The longer you live in SF and the Bay Area, the more apparent it becomes how much it skates on tech, history, and intrinsic advantages like the weather and beautiful geography. SF in particular has such incredible resources that it should be the most advanced city in the world.
- opportune 7y agoBut the people in San Francisco have got what they wanted. Maybe in 20 years SF will be able to change but right now the majority of people are actually in favor of the way the city is being run: to stay stuck in time as long as possible
- ergocoder 7y agoIf I had most of my net worth tied to my SF house, I would be a NIMBY as well. Don't blame them though.
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- turk73 7y agoI have relatives in Oakland. They own a couple of houses, rent one out and due to home value, are multi-millionaires. They live a lifestyle of multi-millionaires as a result of their belief that they are multi-millionaires. If anything happens to property values there, they are screwed. I can only imagine most of the people who own homes there behave similarly using credit cards and other means to live a fancy lifestyle believing one day they will sell their property and pay everything off. I don't hate them, but the phrase "California values" has a deeply negative connotation to me. Everything they do screams of hypocrisy.
- koheripbal 7y agoI lived in SF in 1999, and that mentality was exactly the same then as it is today. The long time residents of SF don't believe in _change_, and that isn't going to change. It is just happenstance that the initial San Jose tech explosion happened near SF. ...but maybe other parts of the country are better suited to it going forward...