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Every city has its glory days and eventual decline. It happened to Detroit; it's happening to SF, and eventually it'll happen to other cities (I see it happenin
by bdcravens 4y ago
Every city has its glory days and eventual decline. It happened to Detroit; it's happening to SF, and eventually it'll happen to other cities (I see it happening to Houston if the US truly uncouples itself from oil)
- marcellus23 4y agoCities can come back after the decline, too. Look at NYC.
- bdcravens 4y agoTrue, given the local industry. NYC has finance, marketing, fashion, etc. What would San Francisco's be? As an outsider, it feels to me like the days magical tech synergy has left, and that work in our industry is unlikely to recentralize.
- ghaff 4y agoWas SF ever really a tech city? I mean it can't avoid Silicon Valley's penumbra, tech events and conferences, and a few large presences like Salesforce. But SF isn't really a tech city like Manhattan is a finance city. (Indeed, SF is probably at least as much of a West Coast financial and law center as it is tech.
- zamnos 4y agoOutside of tech, there's UCSF, a prominent medical institution, a large part of which can only be done in person and not remotely, as well as Genentech and similar, which is in south sf and not sf proper, but where do their employees want to live? some want suburbia but some also want city living
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoHow is that glory-days-then-decline theory working out for the cities of the old world?
- twelve40 4y agoit's not a given if they get their head out of their ass. SF has so many good things going for it.
- bdcravens 4y agoIt can certainly be a world class city, but often times the call to arms is in the response to a decline to the prosperity of the last 20 years. Odds are that the world has moved on from the conditions that brought that about, and SF has to reinvent itself (or revert to its previous identity)