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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by raldi on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:02PM (#10070247)
> The market always corrects itself.

"In the long run, we're all dead." -Keynes

It took generations for a second Motor City to emerge outside of Detroit. New York is still the unchallenged capital of the finance and fashion worlds. There's no "Second Hollywood" in the United States. There's a Reno and an Atlantic City, but neither holds a candle to Las Vegas.

What makes you so certain tech will have an exodus from San Francisco between now and the year of your retirement?

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by Encosia on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:09PM (#10070274)
> There's no "Second Hollywood" in the United States.

Look into what's been going on in Georgia for the past few years. Not a replacement for Hollywood yet, but it's a good example of how quickly alternatives can take off due almost entirely to geographic differences in the cost of doing business.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by jacobolus on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:15PM (#10070294)
Where by “geographic differences in the cost of doing business” you mean “desperate politicians in a race to the bottom competing over who can waive the most taxes”. http://www.georgia.org/industries/entertainment/production-i...
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by echelon on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:19PM (#10070306)
My rent for a two bedroom apartment in Inman Park is $700.

The costs of doing business in Atlanta are significantly less than other regions.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by SomeCallMeTim on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:17PM (#10070300)
Georgia has had a presence at the Game Developers' Conference every year for as long back as I can remember. They've been wooing game developers with basically free money and other bonuses.

And while they likely have convinced a few companies (they like to showcase a half dozen or so), it's not like it even was a measurable blip on the growth of game companies in Silicon Valley.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by Encosia on Sunday August 16, 2015 @06:51PM (#10070560)
That's interesting, but we (as far as I know) weren't talking about game development, but about TV/movie production.

Most people don't realize it, but many recent high-budget movies were filmed in Georgia, e.g. Fast Five, Vacation, Ant-Man, all three Hunger Games movies, one of the recent X-Men movies, Flight, etc. After 2008, there was an abundance of empty warehouse space here available at deep discounts, not far from the highest volume airport in the world.

As the economy rebounded, momentum in that industry seems to have remained even though there aren't many empty/cheap warehouses here anymore. A few developers are even working on purpose-built movie studios around town now.

It has been interesting to watch, and certainly could parallel what could happen in the bay area if an exodus to somewhere like Austin began in earnest.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by arcanus on Sunday August 16, 2015 @07:35PM (#10070699)
> It has been interesting to watch, and certainly could > parallel what could happen in the bay area if an exodus to > somewhere like Austin began in earnest.

Tech Austinite here -- given the rate prices of food, housing, etc. are spiking here, I'm presently more inclined to see ATX as catching up to SF prices and acting as an SXSF than remaining a low-cost alternative.

Don't generally disagree with your thesis, but at least for tech I don't think the game is zero sum, and the market is expanding fast enough to support multiple tech hubs.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by Encosia on Sunday August 16, 2015 @07:41PM (#10070717)
Definitely. Austin was just the first example that came to mind, but I think you're right that spreading out to several regional hubs is also likely (and preferable, IMO).
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by rhino369 on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:19PM (#10070307)
The "second hollywood" is Vancouver. I know it's not in the USA, but it's where a lot of TV is shot.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by gkanapathy on Sunday August 16, 2015 @07:01PM (#10070592)
There's where it's shot, and there's where it is run from.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by nugget on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:05PM (#10070257)
It's hard for two kids in a garage to start a new car company or a new investment bank. Much easier for them to start the next big tech company.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by cft on Sunday August 16, 2015 @08:34PM (#10070844)
San Francisco is the second Hollywood. The new media capital.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by raldi on Sunday August 16, 2015 @09:03PM (#10070940)
And it only took, what, 90 years?
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by echelon on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:16PM (#10070297)
> There's no "Second Hollywood" in the United States.

It's right here in Atlanta. It's been a decade and a half in the making, and the pace and scale of it increases with every passing year.

Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by someear on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:29PM (#10070337)
If the "second hollywood" is in fact in Atlanta, I think you're validating the original point (i.e. there is no second hollywood). Being second miles and miles behind the leader doesn't actually mean you're close to winning, or even competing.
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by GFK_of_xmaspast on Sunday August 16, 2015 @05:40PM (#10070364)
According to wikipedia, as a whole $617M was spent in Georgia in 2013 on production; this compares disfavorably with Louisiana ($674M), British Columbia ($778M), and New York State (1880M). Wiki doesn't even bother to list California. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_industry_in_Georgia_%28U....)
Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by echelon on Sunday August 16, 2015 @06:10PM (#10070452)
That list doesn't include all the new studios being built:

Pinewood: http://m.pinewoodgroup.com/our-studios/usa/pinewood-atlanta-...

Third Rail: http://clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/04/07/film-and-tv-s...

Tyler Perry's new facility: http://m.clatl.com/freshloaf/archives/2015/06/29/tyler-perry...

This is just three of about ten studio facilities being built in the area.

I believe three of the Marvel films have been filmed in Atlanta. These have been recent enough not to be in that list.

I know this is anecdotal, but if you were living in Atlanta you'd get a sense of how much growth is occurring in our film industry.