Things San Franciscans Should Be Thankful For
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Things San Franciscans Should Be Thankful For
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#2I kind of have an instinctive dislike of the notion of "thankfulness", like these are pure grants of fortune we shouldn't look too deeply into. The truth is that policy & other things that are actually changeable have a hell of an impact on where and who prospers. You might be "lucky" in a Rawlsian sense to be born in a wealthy area, but the fact that money has been dumped into the SF Bay area for 70 years or so, for vacuum tubes to integrated circuits to microprocessors to AI research to social media startups, has been the result of choices specific people have made.
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#3If TFA is meant to say San Franciscans should be grateful for the gentrification of the city, then it's pretty insulting, and frankly, emblematic of the entitlement and lack of awareness in the tech community. If anything, TFA proves that life is getting better for a small segment of the population of San Francisco.
1. Chart does not discuss why unemployment is down. Is it down because there's a ton of tech workers moving in while the unemployed poor are priced out of the city?
2. Same argument for #1
3. Data comes from self-reports on Glassdoor, which polls mostly from white-collar workers. So this chart should really say "Job Satisfaction Scores by City for White Collar Workers."
4. This chart measures against the national income distribution, which is a comparison that makes no sense, given San Francisco's insane cost of living.
5. Yes, San Franciscans should root for sports teams that are given money from municipalities to rich owners to build stadiums. This is money that could have been used to fund initiatives that actually improve the lives of low income families. The chart talks about playoff games that most people can't afford to attend, or if it's on cable, most people can't watch.
10. You can fly to a vacation destination. If you can afford it.
TFA reminds me of the saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics."
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#4I lived in SF for four years and I loved it, but the one thing that always bothered me was the smug sense by some people of how great they are compared to the rest of the world just because they happen to live there.
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#5The Loma Prieta was not "the big one."
http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/seismologists-say-bay...
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#6San Francisco has nearly 40 restaurants per 10,000 households, which is 40 percent more than the second highest city.
Is this the right way to determine the variety of restaurant options available to a city resident? I think maybe a better metric might be restaurants per square mile? As somebody who has lived in both SF and NYC, I'm a bit confused by a result that says that SF has more restaurant options than NYC. Just a thought.
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#7I lived in SF for four years and I loved it, but the one thing that always bothered me was the smug sense by some people of how great they are compared to the rest of the world just because they live in San Francisco.
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#8This is the sort of self-righteous, living-in-a-bubble article you could only count on San Francisco to churn out.
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#9I wonder what all the non-tech job holders think.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification
We should all know how good we have it. I know I'm making more money than I ever considered possible writing code and I know I love my job. What I want to read about is what happened to everyone who was in SF before this tech thing started and what's happening to all the people who are not part of the tech-wave & startup-parties. All those coffee-shops, bars and restaurants that the tech-crowd hang out at; how are the employees of said places making ends meet? Do they live near their jobs? Does half their salary go to transportation to/from work? When I worked at Gamestop while in school, that was the case for me. Those were the days; a paycheck that was less than $400 =/ I really don't know how my co-workers who didn't live with their parents or going to college were living on that or what they're doing nowadays.
Speaking of which, https://foursquare.com/v/gamestop/4a29d524f964a520e4951fe3
How in the world can Gamestop afford that store on Market street? I walk by it almost weekly. Doesn't look very busy to me. What must the rent be there? How many games, consoles, controllers, etc. must they be selling a month to make that worthwhile? What are the employees salaries? Where do they live??!!!
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#10If TFA is meant to say San Franciscans should be grateful for the gentrification of the city, then it's pretty insulting, and frankly, emblematic of the entitlement and lack of awareness in the tech community. If anything, TFA proves that life is getting better for a small segment of the population of San Francisco. 1. Chart does not discuss why unemployment is down. Is it down because there's a ton of tech workers m…
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