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Your premise is incorrect. People choose to live in SF because they prefer city life. Building more boxes around the bay will not get these people to move. The
by twiceaday 13y ago
Your premise is incorrect. People choose to live in SF because they prefer city life. Building more boxes around the bay will not get these people to move. The buses ARE a temporary solution, but the real solution is to move the work closer to the workers.
I also think that it is an entirely over-optimistic point of view that these few tech companies are going to shake a few hands and rents will decrease even when talking about a multi-year time scale.
- wpietri 13y agoSome people choose to live in SF because they prefer city life. But that's another thing that tech-company muscle can help solve: the peninsula doesn't have to be sterile. I'm not talking about a few handshakes. I'm talking about them using their substantial financial and political power to influence the city and regional governments on the peninsula. If you think billion-dollar companies can't influence the areas where they are based, you haven't been paying any attention to local US politics.