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As someone who grew up in SF and went to school in LA, all this talk of where it is hard to date seems silly. People always like to complain about things like that but the truth is dating can be hard for some people anywhere.
No, there are absolutely strong forces which bring different kinds of people to one city over another.
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Don't forget school districting based on Game of Thrones
And if you haven't heard, all the public school names are going to be renamed, since people like Lincoln and George Washington were terrible people who shouldn't be celebrated /s [1] [1]: https://abc7news.com/renaming-sf-public-schools-school-name-...
What did Diane Feinstein do? :)
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therefore I’m moving for a year or so until things fully reopen Do you see an end to this pandemic in the next year or so? A good percentage of people are still refusing to wear masks, we aren't anywhere closer to a vaccine etc. I am trying to be optimistic, but the situation isn't improving from any direction and we are already 10 months in :(
In what sense are we not closer to a vaccine? I’m not following vaccine development closely, but my understanding is that many candidates are progressing along nicely.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/10/13/covid-vacci...
I think people are asking the wrong questions. We know that people moving back in with their parents is up about 3 million due to COVID [1]. It would follow that studio apartments are the mostly likely to be rented by those same young people, thus the demand has dried up. The question we aren't asking is, what happens when the economy recovers and these people move out of their parent's homes? Will they go back to th…
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Don't forget school districting based on Game of Thrones
And if you haven't heard, all the public school names are going to be renamed, since people like Lincoln and George Washington were terrible people who shouldn't be celebrated /s [1] [1]: https://abc7news.com/renaming-sf-public-schools-school-name-...
I'll add, the fact there are people who downvote information is quite possibly another strike against SF.
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This is the mindset I really don’t understand though. Sure your company can say “we’re all remote” today, but they can just as easily say “everyone has to come back” in six months. Or “everyone doesn’t have to, but those who don’t are the first laid off next time”. I’ve been fully remote since March, so I’ve been weighing this for awhile”
Many companies have publicly stated they will allow permanent work from home [1]. Many others have said so privately to their workers. As more companies adopt this, this provides more options to those who relocate and whose employer tries to pull them back. Keep a long runway in an emergency fund, keep your professional network warm, always be ready to bounce if your employer tries to change your quality of life for…
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I keep reading people make this claim. I haven't found it to be even remotely true for the food my family is inclined to eat. Every time I've gone to visit hip small college towns for the last 5 years, I've eagerly sought out the talked-about eateries, and they were all... distinctly mediocre compared to NYC or Bay Area or LA food. You still can't find anything but Americanized Asian food, even the California-cuisine…
Lots of people like to believe this but it really, really isn’t true. Los Angeles and New York City have a substantially larger cultural footprint than other cities. Even though the variety of food, music, etc. is growing quickly elsewhere, it’s really not the same.
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If there was no rent control, prices would drop even more. Firstly landlords are afraid to permanently lock down at a lower price, offering free months of rent instead. Secondly rent controlled tenants are afraid to lose their apartments, that are still below the market rates.
If there were no landlords prices would drop further still!
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Seattle's reckoning/correction is coming. The city is doing everything in its power to chase money away, Amazon is trying to move to Bellevue as an example. People are growing tired of the messy streets, needles are tents are spreading as the city ignores the problem. On the plus side, our landlord is doing everything in his power to keep us happy, for the first time.
> Seattle's reckoning/correction is coming. The city is doing everything in its power to chase money away And yet the skyscrapers and office buildings are still going up. The construction boom hasn't mitigated. Seattle isn't doing a good job at chasing money away. > People are growing tired of the messy streets, needles are tents are spreading as the city ignores the problem. It's just a handful of streets. It's cert…
I don't have skin in the game here, but I noticed this statement, which I think isn't right. You need to consider that commercial construction, skyscrapers no less, take years. From conception to funding to planning to approvals to building, the lag is long.
So long, in fact that some have come up with the (controversial, not saying it's correct) "Skyscraper Index" which argues that historically, peak skyscraper height correlated with the worst economic dips in the economic cycles.
Latency is huge. No one thought up COVID, WFH or even CHAZ when they were standing around plastic models of plastic buildings.