One of the memes of the Bay area is that people want it to remain the same as it was the day they arrived and that anybody who arrived after them is "the proble

One of the memes of the Bay area is that people want it to remain the same as it was the day they arrived and that anybody who arrived after them is "the problem". But seriously I find it amusing that the author thinks that Berkeley and Oakland will attract people away from SF. Berkeley is even more hostile to change than SF. Witness the nasty campaign against Measure T in 2012 where Berkeley voted to keep a cesspool over a nice new business park and kept parts of the city zoned for manufacturing that is never coming back instead of startups. Berkeley should have a thriving startup culture with the university, but everybody drives across the bridge rather than dealing with the NIMBYs. Oakland's current and previous administration couldn't find its arse with both hands. Witness how much new development has ended up in Emeryville. So yeah businesses setup in SF because because at the moment its the least incompetent or hostile of the Bay area cities to have to deal with. And will most likely remain so.