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I left nyc a couple months ago after living there for three years. The city has so many issues and something only someone like Mamdani (with good support) could

I left nyc a couple months ago after living there for three years. The city has so many issues and something only someone like Mamdani (with good support) could fix. It’s been said that it’s impossible for a New York City mayor to be uncorrupt. By the nature of getting the position, you must be a corrupt individual. That’s why you see so many past mayors and potentials having such a shameful history. Mamdani feels like a break from that tradition. I wish the Bay Area could replicate something similar. We suffer from similar issues as NYC but we are constantly getting conservative leaning officials who refuse to get law enforcement to do their job. Breed was a center politician (right leaning in any other western country), and now we have a center right mayor. I’ve not really noticed much improvement in the bay - even with the current mayor’s constant posting on TikTok. I just see him blocking housing development and congratulating developers on building more empty office space in a city that desperately needs more housing. Not a surprise if you’ve lived here for a while. The Bay Area is incredibly conservative for all its performative wokeism.

Kephael 1y ago
The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. NYC has a very large low income population. NYC doesn't have nearly as strong of an economy, financial services and trading firms are increasingly leaving. Whereas the Bay Area, particularly the peninsula, is home to the companies shaping the future like OpenAI and Nvidia along with a huge number of quality startups.
- archagon 1y ago
  We may have to revisit this comparison once the AI bubble pops.
  - Kephael 1y ago
    The Bay Area companies have been driving the economy forward for several decades now, it's been economically dominant since the mid 1990s. Consider more 'recent' companies like Google, Facebook, and older companies like PayPal and eBay. We already had the dotcom bubble pop, but that was more akin to a bump in the road.
- ThrowMeAway1618 1y ago
  >The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. Not so much. The NY Metro Area has the highest GDP of any metro area in the US[0]. The San Francisco Bay Metro area ranks fourth, behind NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago. But don't feel too bad about it. It could have happened to any Metro area. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropol...
  - Kephael 1y ago
    It's not the overall metro area GDP itself but rather per capita, the people in the Bay Area are simply much wealthier and higher income. This is also true in the Puget Sound region, but not to the same extent. This difference in population is why they don't have an interest in a Zohran of sorts. State run grocery stores and public transit are really not a concern to most people as their lifestyle is much different.

Kephael 1y ago

The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. NYC has a very large low income population. NYC doesn't have nearly as strong of an economy, financial services and trading firms are increasingly leaving. Whereas the Bay Area, particularly the peninsula, is home to the companies shaping the future like OpenAI and Nvidia along with a huge number of quality startups.

archagon 1y ago
We may have to revisit this comparison once the AI bubble pops.
- Kephael 1y ago
  The Bay Area companies have been driving the economy forward for several decades now, it's been economically dominant since the mid 1990s. Consider more 'recent' companies like Google, Facebook, and older companies like PayPal and eBay. We already had the dotcom bubble pop, but that was more akin to a bump in the road.
ThrowMeAway1618 1y ago
>The Bay Area is far wealthier and much more economically relevant than NYC. Not so much. The NY Metro Area has the highest GDP of any metro area in the US[0]. The San Francisco Bay Metro area ranks fourth, behind NYC, Los Angeles and Chicago. But don't feel too bad about it. It could have happened to any Metro area. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropolitan_areas_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_metropol...
- Kephael 1y ago
  It's not the overall metro area GDP itself but rather per capita, the people in the Bay Area are simply much wealthier and higher income. This is also true in the Puget Sound region, but not to the same extent. This difference in population is why they don't have an interest in a Zohran of sorts. State run grocery stores and public transit are really not a concern to most people as their lifestyle is much different.