[OpenDrapery]

Interesting that you think SF is special because Google is there. What made it special before Google existed? What made it special before computers existed?

It's geography, climate, and culture make it special. Tech companies don't get to show up and stake an ownership claim on this stuff. If the hippies told the hipsters "we were here first!", they wouldn't be entirely wrong.

[elvirs]

tech companies are not the only thing making SF special but they are the main reason behind raise in housing cost of recent decades and turning the area into even more exclusive than they were before.