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SF wasn’t fun before the Pandemic. I’ve visited friends who work in tech 3 different times the past 5 years. The city lacks culture, the food and drinking scene
by acalzycalzy 6y ago
SF wasn’t fun before the Pandemic. I’ve visited friends who work in tech 3 different times the past 5 years. The city lacks culture, the food and drinking scenes suck, and the people are all the same.
(I spend most of my city time in miami, nyc, and montreal)
- egypturnash 6y agoThis is what tech money does to a city. Rents go up, everybody interesting leaves for places they can afford without a ludicrous salary.
- aejnsn 6y agoBut only tech money does that?
- coffeemug 6y agoNo, this is what not building things does to a city.
- shuckles 6y agoNYC is mostly run by finance money, which must be at least as pernicious as tech money right?
- refurb 6y agoYou have a point, and there are parts of NYC that are very heavy finance workers, but I'd point out a few differences: - You'd have to include SF, San Jose and Oakland together to equal the size of NYC (and much of that SF metro area is single family home suburbs with no one on the street at night) - Tech workers concentrate in SF proper because there is not much outside of it (yes, there is, but SF is the core) Just my take, but SF seems to revolve around tech, while finance is big in NYC, it's not the dominating industry like tech is in SF.
- MAGZine 6y agoSo manhattan is to sf as nyc is to the bay? you ignore a lot of other industry around the bay and around nyc. Neither Queens nor Fremont are representative of the other areas, neither is Brooklyn or Oakland. Or Berkeley. Or Bronx.
- killerdhmo 6y agoSF literally has an award winning food and drink scene, but you go off king. Sounds like you were spending time in the wrong places. Please enjoy Miami
- acalzycalzy 6y agoOh yay an award “one hand clap” eye roll
- klintcho 6y agoI think this as many other things are highly subjective. One might say that something that could be considered a fairly good indicator of a "good" food-scene would be this: https://www.statista.com/chart/16308/michelin-restaurant-us/ https://www.statista.com/chart/16308/michelin-restaurant-us/ Where SF is no 2 in the country for number of Michelin star restaurants. Again as the first sentence states; one might argue this is not the indicator of a "good" food-scene but I guess we'll have to take what we can in terms of objectivity to try to judge a city on different things, and for food this is at least for high earners, probably a somewhat good indicator.
- m463 6y agoway better than san jose