The place we selected is proof against any Tsunami, and massively over-built to handle large earthquakes. Connect with friends, family and other people you know. See for yourself at https://thecovidcomplex.com/state/california/san%20francisco... Full disclosure, I built this website. Regional wealth and inequality cause liberal policies, liberal policies don't cause wealth & inequality. These things are often needed in order to help themselves get out of the situation they’re in, to connect or to be presentable for opportunities that arise that might aid them (and to be able to get the phone call telling them of such opportunities). The other items are generally about high winds, and this house is pretty much proof against that. Dot-com 1 burst around April 2000 but I don't think the rents fully bottomed out for nearly two years. I guess Spokane went downhill, I've last been there several years ago and the comments also seem to say the last couple of years homeless population exploded. If it went from 881,000 negative to 879,000 negative, should we panic? Someone originally turned me on to CityJournal here on HN some years ago. [1] https://sfbos.org/sites/default/files/FY2019-20_and_FY2020-2... That is fucking bananas. There's so much money in SF that tech people are actually small fry. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-c... https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/Tw... https://www.city-journal.org/html/sidewalks-san-francisco-13... https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/parents/visit/vaccination-durin... https://thecovidcomplex.com/state/california/san%20francisco... https://newrepublic.com/article/159953/will-wall-street-jour... https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/With-41-killings-i... https://www.realms.org/pics/woods-outside.jpg, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Nisqually_earthquake. Intuitively this makes sense: Moving takes time. That’s why rent control was enacted. The residents who have the means will get fed up with the downward spiral, leading to a negative feedback in life quality and revenue. Large numbers of positive results are an entirely different kind of data than large numbers of the opposite (neutral + negative). Politicians in SF always money hungry will then try to hit the 'billionaires' where it hurts, 'their wallets', and try to raise taxes leading to more people leaving. The only weird thing about SF is that the office/financial district is the worst part of the city. Thanks for these, I was aware after researching (for years!) If you don't believe me, use Streetview on Google Maps and click you way around the city. Look at the rest of the data. Great for her... https://www.openthebooks.com/forbes-why-san-francisco-is-in-... A few years old... I'll be the first to tell you that I'll vote for any despot who promises to screw the people of Boston but even I have to admit that if your goal is to do some BioMed thing the existing industry there is far better poised to take advantage of it than SV is. This is why CA is the golden state. As it is in almost any liberal US city. Chicago's CTA is I believe part of the RTA, which also operates the suburban mass transit (Metra trains, and Pace buses). I'm talking about "the average person in SF", exactly as you described in your OP. when I go to New York. The homeless are the product. Your company got sold for $100 million? Other families across the country and world have similar feelings about health. There are many lower rated schools in Sunnyvale and San Jose. What good is having a lot of money if you're surrounded by problems and are unhappy? Sure, downtown and surrounding branches (Corktown) have come back, but Detroit itself is physically huge, and can house Boston, the island of Manhattan, and San Fransisco within its borders[0]. This is of course nothing new, for instance NY has gone through many ups and downs of its own and all along many in the media claimed "NY is dying!". No its politics. i routinely see drug needles on the ground or junkies shooting up in Seattle too. Did you know that the Spanish flu of 1918 wasn't really Spanish? I see that CA is still there, and far more populated than it was 30 years ago. But this is my (maybe protracted, admittedly) point about an SUV hitting the bike: if you account for injuries to others outside the vehicle, driving becomes a more dangerous form of transportation. It appears in the form of an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms that are all linked by the belief that they are collectively revelations of God. Are you saying OP should blame their self? When I'm driving I'm way more worried about hurting someone else then actually getting hurt myself. Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured), the State Counsellor of Myanmar, is detained by the military in a coup d'état. The fact that rich places also have a corresponding rise in poverty is not a new problem, and it's one people have thought about and "solved" over a 100 years ago. Final note, I'm happy to make updates based on additional data but public datasets are slim pickings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Washing... https://today.oregonstate.edu/archives/2010/may/odds-huge-qu... https://www.census.gov/data/tables/2018/demo/geographic-mobi... https://portal.311.nyc.gov/article/?kanumber=KA-02253, https://www.safewise.com/blog/most-dangerous-cities/. It’s the same dataset they use to power the interactive map that was linked. They'll just keep paying to maintain their "nice areas" and Uber from one to the next, just like it has been for the last 9 years I lived in SF. Sure, but being an industry town is largely a consequence of city policy. In my mind, things that are easily converted to cash. Creating a safe environment for essential workers, homeless, elderly and otherwise financially struggling folks is something most other cities are failing at, and I'm happy San Francisco is not prioritizing the feelings of bros who need to go out to bars. Georgia flipped blue (just) in the election just gone largely due to Atlanta's growth. From what I saw, there is always some portion of local people (like the angry anti-skyscraper guy in this article) that is too xenophobic and anti change, just as there is always some portion of newcomers that is too transactional, extractive, and ready to skip town when the going gets tough. What is the city/state/federal political mood on matters of big homeless, housing, or infrastructure projects? And this likely has long-term political consequences. > more lives will be lost to the costs of a severe lockdown than saved by it. The city to actually disappear?? Most of Texas has been dealing with CA transplants since last housing crisis, or before, so 12+ years now. So, like, either the people on any level want to do something or... do they want the Andrew Carnegie of tech to punch through the "red tape"? That's not true. You raise a good point about the study of voting patterns of Texas transplants but whatever the cause I think it's clear that in the long term Texas is trending blue. If they have the incentives to protect the wealth fund. Ditto for Seattle - the East Side has greater wealth, more expensive housing, is less progressive, and is doing much better. Doctors, nurses, EMTs, transit agency workers, taxi drivers, grocery workers, bank tellers, police, firemen, street cleaners, nursing home staff – none of them can lock themselves in their house and continue to get paychecks like the average tech worker. The speaker of the house lives in SF. And do WHAT, for them? New Jersey (AT&T / Bell Labs) used to be the place to do telecommunications. I'm not sure about Chicago, but I think Chicago's budget includes its two airports (ORD, MDW), but not CTA. The core idea is that as a society's productivity increases, this just gets captured by higher land values and rents, leaving labour having to pay even more rent to just survive. A lot more crime and a lot more homeless and infrastructure is in disarray. > Chicago has a city budget of $12 billion this year with a population almost exactly three times higher. The high prices chased the old SFers away, the artists and eccentrics who enjoyed and loved SF ... and the influx was such that there was no opportunity to pass along the culture. You only have to indicate the short deadline and our support team will help pick the best and most qualified writer in your field. It's not some abstract "bureaucracy". ), - homeless migrate here, so it's really a federal problem. Another issue I suggest is also that systemic issues are harder to solve- I don't live in SF but I understand there is corruption, NIMBYism, and waste that takes the considerable budget SF has and doesn't actually improve lives for the neediest who live there. There is significant damage being done with shutdowns and lockdowns that is with great chance worse than this disease itself. The real problem is the sky high cost of housing with a low quality of life. Because it is unfair. (For comparison Canada is 20..NZ is 5, Sweden is 10, India is 1300 China is 1400). Given the zoning and building constraints in the Bay Area, IMHO the big tech companies were over-capacity for how many workers that whole area can support. Our multimedia service, through this new integrated single platform, updates throughout the day, in text, audio and video – also making use of quality images and other media from across the UN system. SF county also has one of the lowest marriage and birth rates in the country. He made the move. “Breakfast just doesn’t work for take-out.” The restaurant was known for their breakfasts and always had a crowd in the mornings. Wow, do you mind sharing where you were moving from? E.g. I would take issue with this assumption as I had moved from a pretty socialist country to SF, where I paid much higher taxes and didn't complain. Younger people with lesser means see opportunities to get rent control at a decent price etc. Chicago's budget DOES seem to include its K-12 public schools. We are generous people but not to the level of letting homeless sleep in our suburban yards. It takes a pretty major collision to sustain an injury in a modern automobile. Life is full of risk and trade-off’s. As far as biking infrastructure, if you ignore the other problems, SF has really stepped up its game, mostly due to the effort by the SF Cycling coalitions, I believe (And a number of cycling related deaths). I'll keep working remote from flyover country, thanks (lots of beautiful places here too if you don't mind the snow!). And that's before you get to the sky-high cost of living. Most of the "homeless solutions" are effectively "move them somewhere else--preferably jail". [0]. That field is increasingly getting commoditized. what they have always wanted was affordable cheap housing in the most expensive cities of the usa. Before I'd agree to paying even more, I'd want to know what exactly my existing taxes are paying for, and why those things are more important than cleaning up literal shit from the sidewalks. No matter what YOU think is a solution, most of the homeless will refuse consent. Are you blocking those "new, expensive condos" because of concern for the poor or because you don't think wealthy people should have a place to live in SF? However, public transportation (including in SF) is usually a significant net cost. It’s funny because Eberling is a rich developer living mostly in Marin who makes his money renting out expensive apartments built with city subsidies. You clearly don't frequent the WSJ opinion section. I'm looking forward to retractions of all these level zero takes when rent prices spike in July. What does it say about our public school system? > I put up with increasing crime, dangerous grime (such as needles in bike lanes) and tent cities on sidewalks all over the place for a decade until my brain couldn't take it anymore. 3) The cost of living in San Francisco is much higher and therefore government pay scales in San Francisco are some of the highest in the country. If SF was going to make one great budgetary fix it would be to move away from pensions for public employees and move to a more traditional 401k retirement funds. Winter freezes all churn. The local leaders are enabling thus inviting more homeless, etc. Therefore, since the city is now exclusively populated by rich people, wouldn't the average person be rich, and therefore have a better quality of life than the average middle class person ~30 years ago? The transplants from California if anything, in my anecdotal experience at least, are fairly conservative by Austin standards. Yes! Another reason you might not take a test is that you don't know you need it. It feels either a problem of: 1. “The motivation got to this get-rich-quick attitude,” he said. They are here for the jobs, and resent the city. etc. Though, i know nothing on the subject - and advertise as much. Neither of those can be done anywhere with an Internet connection; they're going to require close collaboration between software developers, data scientists, electrical/mechanical/biomedical engineers, and actual scientists (physicists, chemists, biologists, and material scientists). Even in East Palo Alto you're looking at a 7 for HS. What are your policy suggestions? Of course, people can migrate out of bay area.