I think it's telling that a number of your examples are things found outside of San Francisco. It's SF proper seeing these drops-- not surrounding areas in the

I think it's telling that a number of your examples are things found outside of San Francisco. It's SF proper seeing these drops-- not surrounding areas in the bay (at least not to anywhere near the same degree). And just like you see the benefit of being able to travel out to those things it's also possible to travel in to SF for the things that are there-- from my perspective the things that are good about SF (like a performing arts event or a fancy restaurant) are things which I'd only partake occasionally and not every day. Some of it is just subjective: I think the SF weather is pretty terrible compared to anywhere else in the bay-- continually cold and foggy. I can't stand the constant mind numbing noise. I can't stand the traffic, the lack of parking, and the public transit necessary to deal with it but which stops running early and poorly connects significant parts of the city. But I don't see a reason to argue it with you: Different people have different preferences and I don't doubt that SF is great in all kinds of ways that matter to you. For me not living in SF was a trivial decision that had nothing to do with real-estate prices, and so it's easy to me to imagine how things are for people who decided otherwise but with the pandemic are finding that the trade-off they made doesn't make sense. My point was only that there were are many people who find it generally awful and only counterbalanced by factors that, at least temporarily, now don't apply. > Show me a place with affordable real estate and I'll show you a place that not many people want to move to. That is a misrepresentation of the economics. Prices can shoot to the sky based on relatively modest differences between supply and demand. Some places have affordable real-estate because they're a lot less attractive, but others have more affordable real-estate because they're only slightly less attractive or because they have slightly less constrained supply, which can just be a product of geography or differences in public policy.