[CryptoFascist]

So how long until SF and the Bay Area's anti-development, anti-improvement ethos causes some other place (Austin/Denver)? to replace Silicon Valley.

For me, I'm only here for the money I get to keep after expenses. Once somewhere else matches that and without the crazy whining about gentrification and privilege, and the extreme NIMBYism, I'm gone. I suspect the same is true for many others.

[santaclaus]

> So how long until SF and the Bay Area's anti-development, anti-improvement ethos causes some other place (Austin/Denver)? to replace Silicon Valley.

> For me, I'm only here for the money I get to keep after expenses. Once somewhere else matches that and without the crazy whining about gentrification and privilege, and the extreme NIMBYism, I'm gone. I suspect the same is true for many others.

Can't comment on Austin, but having lived in the Bay and Denver, there is just as much gnashing of teeth and nativism in Denver (let alone Boulder, my god). Same goes for Portland, Seattle, hell, even NYC. Locales like to act like they are the only city in the states undergoing demographic shifts.