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San Francisco ia a sideshow. America is a suburban country and the Bay Area is a suburban place. There are ten times as many people in the metro area as in the
by closeparen 3y ago
San Francisco ia a sideshow. America is a suburban country and the Bay Area is a suburban place. There are ten times as many people in the metro area as in the city. Only Salesforce and Uber are in the city; the rest of Big Tech is in the suburbs. The social and physical infrastructure is built for someone who has a family and works in an office to live in the suburbs.
American postwar suburbia has a well-oiled machine for metabolizing growth, but it has to be fed with virgin land. The Bay Area long ago ran out. The growth kept on going, so it manifests in house prices and dysfunction instead.
- milkshakes 3y agoairbnb, adobe and apple, are in sf. and that's just the As
- resolutebat 3y agoApple HQ is in Cupertino, Adobe HQ is in San Jose, and while Airbnb is still in SF, they've cut a lot of real estate there.
- milkshakes 3y agoin fact, all three still retain substantial footprints in SF
- dontupvoteme 3y agoThe problem was the centralization of a certain brand of tech. If they had started making semiconductors in 1 or 2 other places in America this wouldn't have happened.