[seanmcdirmid]

The techies like SF's culture more than NYC's. Maybe they actually like a city run eclectically vs. the stod and boring north east style.

I've never noticed anything very disfunctional about SF: the police seem to work out, the public transportation seems to work out, there is a homeless problem but not an entirely huge one, tourists seem to be safe, the city has great parks.

Maybe you just don't like Californian liberals?

[LordHumungous]

http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-12-16/news/the-worst-run-big-ci...

[seanmcdirmid]

Nothing in that article harks at serious disfunctions that would cause me to avoid living there.

I would rather live in San Francisco than anywhere in Idaho (despite Idaho being a nice place to visit). Or any city in the south for that matter.

[rayiner]

The article isn't about wanting to live there or not. That's largely a function of things that have little to do with the city government (climate, night life, etc). The article urges tech companies to invest in San Francisco, and the issues raised in the article are totally relevant to evaluating why they might not want to. Who wants to pour money into a city that is so badly mismanaged?