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Re:Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach by ttul on Friday July 20, 2018 @05:45PM (#17579230)
Picture SOMA with 50% office vacancy. Literally landlords would give you an office for free just to keep people from vandalizing it. And this went on in 2001-2003. The recovery of tech took a really really long time.

I miss the tech crash. So many great people were floating around with nothing to do. It was a good time to be starting something.

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Re:Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach by asciimo on Friday July 20, 2018 @10:08PM (#17580362)
This isn't the SOMA I remember back in the day. Even if that estimate is accurate, "SOMA" was barely a thing. Now SOMA is literally south of market, and a 50% vacancy would be quite different.
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