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I was born and raised in San Jose, Moved to SF, and then to the Easy Bay. One point is most homeless have long standing attachment to the bay area. Both social
by Gibbon1 6y ago
I was born and raised in San Jose, Moved to SF, and then to the Easy Bay.
One point is most homeless have long standing attachment to the bay area. Both social and economic. There are a lot of very negative effects to moving vulnerable people.
The flipside is is there a reason that the big tech companies need to import tech bros to work in one of the most expensive land in the world. And in particular a place where creating new housing units is frightfully expensive? Seriously why not some place like Waco Texas? In Waco Texas a Tech Bro could live like a king and send his kids to private school on half the salary.
- qaq 6y agoThe budgets are underwater with all the taxes generated by tech Bros are you sure things will be better if that tax revenue dries up ?
- Gibbon1 6y agoCity budgets in California suffer from the effects of Prop 13. The other thing to consider is a lot of the cities budget is labor, labor costs track cost of living, especially rents. It's not necessarily that tech companies overpaid workers are a win for the city. Even more so when a lot of them commute from elsewhere.