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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by huangc10 on Monday January 23, 2017 @02:45PM (#13465270)
> Soaring housing costs, urban violence, shifting ethnic patterns and an increase in childless adults living together may be turning San Francisco, which the Chamber of Commerce likes to call ''everybody's favorite city,'' into a haven for the young, the old, the wealthy and the childless.

Love reading posts of old articles from the 80s and 90s. It's like nothing much has changed over the past 30 or so years. Except the average housing price has gone up from ~$100,000 to ~$1,000,000 (you know, cuz of inflation and stuff...)

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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by ch4s3 on Monday January 23, 2017 @06:02PM (#13467044)
That and the violent crime rate is less than half of what it was then.

*edit spelling

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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by freyir on Monday January 23, 2017 @10:00PM (#13468463)
> the violent crime rate is less than half of what it was then.

And yet it's still in the bottom 2% of U.S. cities when ranked by crime.

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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by pmiller2 on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:13PM (#13465529)
Since you quoted the one sentence that made me scratch my head, I'll glom onto it here. How are any of those things good for young people?
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by AnimalMuppet on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:32PM (#13465717)
The young who are childless but still have a high income. That implies, though, that if/when they have kids, they're going to find San Francisco to be less attractive...
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by ghaff on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:50PM (#13466936)
Of course, "when people have kids" is frequently the point where many people living in just about any city in the country (or at least a denser part of an urban core) pick up and move to the suburbs however reluctantly. For reasons of better public schools, more space, lower crime, etc.
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by pmiller2 on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:51PM (#13465873)
Sure, but most young people don't have a high income.
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by jbpetersen on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:09PM (#13466572)
It's a lot more likely that they do when you precondition on them living in SF.
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by pmiller2 on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @01:30AM (#13469246)
Doesn't that apply equally to everybody?
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by AndrewUnmuted on Monday January 23, 2017 @03:28PM (#13465685)
I think it's more that they the bad for people with children.
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Re:Changing San Francisco is foreseen as a haven for wealthy... by paps on Monday January 23, 2017 @05:30PM (#13466757)
In a similar vein there's this book that was mentionned in YC's winter reading list: https://www.amazon.com/Pandaemonium-Coming-Machine-Contempor...

I haven't received it yet but it seems promising

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