I know this is hacker news nitpicking, but moveBuddha is incredibly disrespectful name for a company to actual buddhists.
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San Francisco Residents Are Leaving at an Unprecedented Rate
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#43Per the article, this is based on an analysis of 1,200 searches done on their platform. It seems like a stretch to use those figures to reach conclusions for a city of over 800,000 residents.
Some stats from https://www.surveysystem.com/sscalc.htm
Plugged in 800,000 as pop size, and 99% as confidence level and 4 as confidence interval.
The number it spits out is 1039
It is a pretty good sample size.
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#44> But there are many reasons why the region could finally be experiencing a shrinking population: And yet the author is missing the elephant in the room: the incredibly deteriorating living conditions in a city crammed with drug addicts, human feces and casual violent aggressions at all hours of the day. A city that enables the "homeless lifestyle" without any accountability. Homelessness is - for the most part in Sa…
A place with the highest housing prices in the country, where software engineers make over six figures and still have roommates, also happens to have a large number of homeless people - nope, no causality there, it's just that they're all drug addicts or living the H O M E L E S S L I F E S T Y L E or (some other thing that absolves me of any need to have empathy for my fellow people)
Software engineers who move in and give zero shits about their fellow humans are truly the disease of SF, not the homeless.
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#45I know this is hacker news nitpicking, but moveBuddha is incredibly disrespectful name for a company to actual buddhists.
Are you the spokesperson for actual buddhists?
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#46Interesting to see Columbus (I'm assuming OH) on that top 5 list. That means about 60 people were looking at moving to Columbus I guess? The other cities made sense to me, but Columbus was a stand out. The others just seemed like cities people looking to leave SF that would use movebuddah would be looking at. I think it's still a major test market because it has the perfect demographics for that kind of thing.
I've heard great things about Columbus, OH. Never been there but sounds like a great midwest city with an affordable cost of living and nice college town (The Ohio State University).
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#47I think a lot of is is also that if you are going to be WFH for the next several months, you can save a lot of money by no longer paying San Francisco-level rent. I know if my lease were expiring now I would not be living here until my job started telling everyone to come back to the office. I feel like that's going to have a much bigger effect than VC funding
This is exactly what my partner and I did. I'm remote and she is COVID-19 remote, so we're sheltering in place in a city we wanted to see. A furnished unit is 1k cheaper than our Bay Area rent was. The weather is great and we get to walk our dog in new parks.
It is an unprecedented time and we're having trouble coming up with reasons to go back. We moved out there for a big n salary for me. That wasn't the work I wanted to do so I'm part time now doing what I enjoy. That really throws off the rent justification though.
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#48Sure, I've thought about leaving myself, but where else can you just take a dump on a sidewalk whenever you feel like it? Or where else can you take anything you want without legal repercussions, as long as it's worth less than $950 misdemeanor limit?
San Francisco is a paradise!
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#49Another reason not mentioned: An increase in Crime in the City, here's just a few https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-is-proposing-r... https://www.ebar.com/news/crime//291784 https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/video-man-defecates-...
Linking to a couple of incidents isn't proof of increase in crime. Rate have actually been steadily declining for years.
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#50Per the article, this is based on an analysis of 1,200 searches done on their platform. It seems like a stretch to use those figures to reach conclusions for a city of over 800,000 residents.
There is nothing wrong with that sample size. That should give less than a 3% margin of error at 95% confidence.