[ben_jones]

> Because you've got to take care of your sick mother was very famously a reason.

With aging parents I empathize a lot with this appreciate you raising it. It’s true the locals will have many reasons to be here and will continue to start businesses and enterprises here.

> you can hire an incredible depth of experts here you can't anywhere else

I’d argue that there are a lot of bad institutional habits in the Bay with regards to software and business management such that the benefit of domain expertise is caught in a nuclear blast of bad “leadership” and dumb capital.