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Detroit is flipping miserable to live in and the Bay Area has a natural air conditioner in the Pacific Ocean. Why do people keep overlooking this? I lived in a
by birdyrooster 6y ago
Detroit is flipping miserable to live in and the Bay Area has a natural air conditioner in the Pacific Ocean. Why do people keep overlooking this? I lived in a boom and bust steel and auto town in the midwest, people left because the only thing keeping us there was a paycheck and family. The Bay has much more to offer than Detroit. Not even comparable.
- majormajor 6y agoBut that doesn't mean you're gonna have a great economy forever. That means property will be expensive forever, because there will always be rich people looking to move or retire there, but will that turn into innovative or well-paying jobs for people?
- birdyrooster 6y agoIt actually does because in Detroit the only reason to be there no longer exists in a meaningful capacity whereas The Bay Area will for the foreseeable future.
- majormajor 6y agoThere are a LOT of rich towns full of money in Europe - where this sort of thing has been going on for a LOT longer than the 100 years or so of California-in-the-US history - where the rich folks live that don't feature booming innovation economies. When even the current crop of tech workers get priced out of California by the continual influx of wealthy folks seeking out the climate you won't see SF turn into Detroit, but it's not gonna be the SF of the nineties->now.
- Apocryphon 6y agoThe San Francisco Bay is one of the largest natural harbors in the world. The tech industry might become like Detroit, the cities themselves will be fine purely because of logistical importance alone.
- throwaway0a5e 6y ago> people left because the only thing keeping us there was a paycheck and family People only put up with SV's downsides for the paycheck, most of them don't even have family there.