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Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

blakesterz wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…

> Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area

It's not a problem. More another manufactured nuisance of the kind San Francisco seems to enjoy creating.

New Yorkers have brunch later, brunch boozier and--broadly speaking--brunch with a reservation. San Franciscans (or at least my friends in San Francisco) eat brunch at the crack of dawn at establishments that prefer lines out the door to taking reservations. (They may claim to take "reservations" at the door. Those aren't reservations. They're names on a wait list. Lots of waiting.)

It's a cultural factor loosely related to (a) recent population and affluence increases outstripping a locale's (b) ability to build new businesses in the midst of (c) a greater value placed on exclusivity than time. (It's also present in Brooklyn and parts of Los Angeles.)

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by zpallin »

mjlee wrote: post #4

From the contact details: 105 North 1st Street #28, San Jose, CA 95113 I'm certainly not an expert, but Wikipedia claims that's in the Bay Area... Are they paying their own team to quit?

Ask most people in SF or Oakland and they'll probably think SJ is not part of the bay area. Lol.

Mostly joking, but I grew up in the Bay Area and live in SJ so it's not actually that uncommon to hear, especially from new folks to the area.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by kfk »

The idea is sound. There are a lot of amazing places in Italy where I am from. Some of these towns sell houses for few thousands. Just think about it. No traffic. No over-crowded restaurants. Your own property. Sun. Sea side.

I think this is more an issue of community. Of course if you are the only remote worker in a place with aging population is not fun. But if some start up would be able to build a community of remote workers in a specific location, wouldn't that make a lot of sense? Also once you have a bunch of highly skilled people in a specific location it gets easier for companies to hire there.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by paulgb »

blakesterz wrote: post #2

I'm not sure if this is a real site or not... but let's assume it is, what's the deal with "Stop waiting in line for brunch"? I get the commute and own your own home things, these seem like BIG deals in life. Is standing in life for brunch really the 3rd biggest problem with living in the Bay Area or is this an inside joke or something like that? Everything I know about living around there I've learned from HN and I…

I think it's meant to be a synecdoche for all of the bad parts of living in a crowded metropolis.

Re: MainStreet – $10k to Leave Bay Area

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Post by readyp1 »

333c wrote: post #3

I do think it's funny that the footer lists an address in San Jose. It's also unclear from the "how it works" page whether it's actually required that participants initially reside in the Bay Area to be eligible for the program.

Yeah, they should definitely clarify that on the "how it works" page. However, they do state residency as a requirement in section 4(a) here: https://workonmainstreet.com/incentive-terms
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