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If techies are pushing away others from San Francisco, then why they do not elect better city government that would fix things for them?
The answer is a small book, but 1 - there aren't that many techies in sf; 2 - many people don't vote; 3 - sf has a huge set of entrenched laws that would have to be overthrown, plus relatively dysfunctional state government (see, eg, proposition system) 4 - some of this genuinely isn't sf's fault, but rather the entire peninsula dumping their housing problems on sf and san jose. See eg mountain view approving 2-3 mil…
> some of this genuinely isn't sf's fault, but rather the entire peninsula dumping their housing problems on sf and san jose.
Many more people commute into SF than out of it, about 150K net daily: http://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/commute-patterns.