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The thing about SF is that every neighborhood has its own "downtown" in the form a primary commercial street with coffee shops, grocery stores, small businesses
by clpm4j 4y ago
The thing about SF is that every neighborhood has its own "downtown" in the form a primary commercial street with coffee shops, grocery stores, small businesses, etc i.e. everything someone working from home might need. Also, nearly every neighborhood has at least one park that is accessible and walkable. When people say "downtown SF" they're referring to the eastern/northeastern part of the city with all of the office buildings which is ironically the part of the city with the worst selection of coffee shops, food, parks, etc. so there is really close to zero reason for people to want to be there. Working from home in NOPA, Inner Richmond, Haight, Duboce, Noe, etc etc is quite nice and also very walkable and convenient.
- spookthesunset 4y agoIs there enough coffee shops and park benches in that part of SFO to support even a small fraction of the 160,000 people who used to walk/bike/bus to their former office? Or are we all gonna now have to rent an extra bedroom in order to live downtown? Is my employer gonna pay for this new pseudo office or did my cost of living just go way up? Cause I ain’t working on the kitchen table or in my kids room. I have almost three years of experience to tell you how much that doesn’t work.
- alephnerd 4y agoIf you have kids you don't live in SF. Plain and simple. It's too expensive to raise a family in the city so it ends up being a handful of very rich old money types who send their kids to elite private schools like Covenant & Stuart or the children of refugees, legal, and illegal immigrants from Central America, Asia, and the Middle East (large Yemeni population in TL) who end up in shithole SFUSD schools Most people in the wfh demographic in SF are either DINKs or Yuppies