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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
Just to be sure, "used to live in the Bay Area" puts you in a position of authority, where as "spent a month per year in the City itself up to and including last year" = scared tourist, perception outweighs reality.
Got it. No True Scotsman over here.
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I think I told this story a while back, my wife and I went to San Francisco about ~10ish years ago? I loved it, it was absolutely fantastic and we'd always been planning to go back.
I also have a small section of clients who specialize in currency trading for large Corporations, theres about 10 of them so obviously its not a huge sample size but all of them begged for transfers to the SF Office to live down there.
And every single one of them begged to come home in under 2 years.
And these are people whose incomes are usually touching or surpassing 7-digits. They're not slumming it.
I always tell clients to be cautious when transferring for work, lots of reasons but the general gist is 'dont sell all your Canadian belongings or home thinking everything is going to be great in the new location.'
Lots of stories about that, but thats for another thread.
The general consensus was that the high cost of living in San Francisco was no longer worth the highly deteriorated quality of life.
Essentially, part of everyday daily life involves a scary or dangerous altercation. Every. Single. Day. If you set foot out of your home its going to happen.
And it saddens me, while I've only ever been to Frisco once (<-come at me bro!) I loved it. Its a beautiful city but I think it would be disingenuous not to acknowledge that its slowly sliding into hell.
And if you want my honest but only really semi-informed opinion, I think its largely due to the fact that SF and California, even America in general have been systematically destroying and devastating the middle-class.
So now you've got a population of fairly wealthy people who can afford to look the other way and do nothing and they're rubbing shoulders with people who have nothing left to lose.
They've squeezed out the normal people and the opportunities for the average citizen.