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It's simple; scenes are expensive. You need space to have a scene, you need a business for that scene/space, and that business needs to be profitable enough to
by doctorwho42 4y ago
It's simple; scenes are expensive. You need space to have a scene, you need a business for that scene/space, and that business needs to be profitable enough to pay for rent and fair wages while also supporting the scene/community.
One of the biggest things I saw in my work travels was how low vs high COL affects availability of scenes and community. Where in low cost cities like Pittsburgh and Rochester you have budding communities and scenes, but in places like Boston and NYC, those same type of scenes can't compete. So they shrink or disappear entirely, to be replaced by name brand chains/companies.
- selectodude 4y agoAlso, San Francisco is just…small. Not that many people live there for a major city.
- laurencerowe 4y agoSan Francisco is just one borough within the Bay Area with its 8M population. It’s a pain there’s no metropolitan level political body, but then neither did London between 1986 and 2000.
- 8note 4y agoScenes are cheap. It's SFO that's expensive. Scenes take land, and lots of it for people to live in and do things, and SFO would prefer to pack in more expensive tech workers than anything else