> his fellow locust [...] Better they fly off to Miami [...] rest of us can clean up the mess and restore some sanity around here. Not to put too fine a point

> his fellow locust [...] Better they fly off to Miami [...] rest of us can clean up the mess and restore some sanity around here. Not to put too fine a point on it, but how are you going to afford food if all the techies leave? Every economy (not just nations) trades with its neighbors and has imports and exports. One of San Francisco's imports is food. But what does San Francisco produce to export/trade for that food? Today one of the exports is generalized "tech" (software licenses, X as a Service, design of products that are built in China). What else? When tech leaves, what do you produce that can be sold to people outside San Francisco? If you look at any former rust-belt mill town, it's not just the factory workers that are affected when the plant closes. Unemployed mill workers can't afford new trucks (so salespeople make less). They can't afford haircuts, so the barber closes up shop. The can't afford to go out to eat or drink, so the entire service industry feels the pain.