This seems to happens a lot (the requirement to move to SF). This is a side note, but I think the VC-required move to sf is behind a lot of the "10 things I ha

This seems to happens a lot (the requirement to move to SF). This is a side note, but I think the VC-required move to sf is behind a lot of the "10 things I hate about SF" style blog posts that proliferated for a while there (and still show up every now and then). A big part of this is that people used to find a way to move to SF because they wanted to live there. In a way, finding a job that allowed you to live in SF was like finding a job that allowed you to be a musician, or pursue an art. SF wasn't a horrible place to pursue a career, but it wasn't the alpha city either. Finance and Law? New York, London, maybe Chicago. Entertainment? LA. Fashion? NY or Paris. Truly career focused people probably went elsewhere. SF wasn't a complete backwater, you could still pursue a career here, but you were in SF because you wanted to live in SF. High tech was around, but it wasn't nearly as big, or as culturally high profile, and it was heavily centered in the south bay. As a result, you really didn't have people here who didn't want to be here who had to put up with it anyway. And no doubt, there's a lot you have to put up with in SF, even if, on the balance, you really like it. Sometimes these "SF != cool city" posts unfavorably compare SF to NY (in my opinion, we need a type of godwin's law here - SF should never be compared to NY, and whoever makes this comparison loses the argument immediately). In the past, we'd probably ask "then why are you here instead of NY?", except that we wouldn't get a chance to ask - none of this would have even happened, because he would be living in NY. But now? He has to live in SF to get funding, and he's not happy about to be in SF, and from the reaction, I'd say nobody is particularly happy about it.