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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by bandrami on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:12AM (#21855555)
The question of who "deserves" to live in a city, and who gets to decide that, is as old as cities themselves, and nobody's found a good answer yet.

Remember that every current resident who isn't evicted means one person who wants to move in to the city isn't able to.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by epistasis on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:21AM (#21855585)
There's a great answer: everybody who wants to live there. Any other answer or non-answer is fundamentally unjust and wrong.
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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by throwawaybbb on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:30AM (#21855617)
Ok give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live. You'll end up living in a much worse place when it's all said and done but anything else would be immoral.
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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by nine_k on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:37AM (#21855637)
I don't know about 120, but an edifice with just 102 stories, the Empire State Building, sort of made the vicinity of it better. At the very least, nearby properties did not depreciate.

Of course if you don't like bustling city life, you may see it differently. I would recommended moving to suburbia it the countryside then.

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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by Apocryphon on Sunday December 22, 2019 @01:35AM (#21855631)
Most SF techies are YIMBYs, so that is a very much "please don't throw me into the briar patch" threat.
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Re:San Francisco Spent a Decade Being Rich, Important, and H... by Redoubts on Sunday December 22, 2019 @08:03PM (#21860771)
> Ok give me your address. I'll call a developer and well start a 120 story highrise where you live.

Good. Maybe the US will have a third city then.

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