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by azinman2 1683 days ago
I think you’ve spent too much time in the tech scene. There are other types in SF, which is a city that has a lot to offer.
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I'm not so sure. I used to party in SF and it was indeed vibrant, but that was more than seven years ago. The tech scene has pushed all the eclectic, weird-haircut, artsy, broke-but-beautiful, etc, scene to places where it is actually able to function economically, with some people telling me about Brooklyn being a better place for that.

Certainly the last few times I've been there, before the pandemic, it was like entering the matrix, you get on a ferry and you show up at the Ferry Building, and boom, you're inside the internet, you went through the monitor of your computer. Ads for ad platforms everywhere, startup credit cards, everything targeting startup founders, and you know what that means? Fucking crazy abusive inescapable prices. Even at the MacDonald's, my best recollection is $8.30 for a quarter-pounder. No wonder you would get assistance from the City if you made less than $120,000.

I'll add that this pushing-out has made the scene lose critical mass.