The folks who are having the most trouble living in SF - the ones who don't work in tech - often don't spend all day looking at a computer, and have to be physically present at a specific location to do their work. They're teachers, firefighters, nurses, chefs, mechanics, contractors, etc. Generally the tech crowd is impacted the least by housing prices, because they have higher incomes and more job mobility.

It's not that they are unable to do the work remotely, it might be frowned upon or straight up not allowed for some workers.

Employers are still leery of too much work-from-home. My company allows it, but only one day a week. Even people who are ostensibly working from home full time typically have to show up to the office occasionally for meetings and such, so they can't move too far.

Yeah, but you also need to work for a company that will let you work remote. Or find another job.

edit: I phrased this originally in a way that the community didn’t care for.

Plenty of people work on, and require physical access to, computer systems that can’t practically be made available to remote workers.