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When I read this article, I was expecting to hear about people were leaving the SF / Silicon Valley Bay Area. But they're not really leaving, they're just choos
by rexreed 13y ago
When I read this article, I was expecting to hear about people were leaving the SF / Silicon Valley Bay Area. But they're not really leaving, they're just choosing relatively lower rent districts in the same overall economy.
The other commenters, while right about dismissing your cartoonish remark, miss your point - Baltimore rocks from many perspectives (yes, crime is a problem, but not in the cartoonish way people portray Baltimore). If you want a real exodus with a significant change of economic area, move to Baltimore or Detroit or Philadelphia or Austin. I just don't see an 'exodus' when people are changing zipcodes but keeping their basic business landscape intact.
- michaelochurch 13y ago* If you want a real exodus with a significant change of economic area, move to Baltimore or Detroit or Philadelphia or Austin. I just don't see an 'exodus' when people are changing zipcodes but keeping their basic business landscape intact.* Agreed. San Francisco's in late August as far as the urban cycle of wealth generation => congestion/NIMBY => cultural stagnation => abandon => renewal => ... goes. August. Hot, sticky, little growth. (This might apply to the SF climate, but in most of the US, August is a time of stagnation.) What the young people trying to get established really need is a different season, like Austin's early-May or Baltimore's late-March. (Or Detroit if you can tolerate being between the balls of January.) If you're 22 and you go to the Bay Area thinking you'll be a VC-backed founder in 5 years and rich enough to retire in 10, then sorry, but you were born 10-15 years too late.