Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by ghaff on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:33AM (#24177635)

On the other hand, in the US, people had been net migrating out of many cities--including today's "elite" cities--until around the late 90s for about the previous 40-50 years. The current idea that young people all want to live in cities is relatively recent. When I graduated from grad school in the mid-80s, essentially no one from my class who went to work in the Boston area actually lived in the city.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by lucidguppy on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:41AM (#24177690)

I wonder when the country will realize that the rush hour traffic of the nation is a drag on the economy and should be addressed as serious as any emergency.

We need livable towns and cities with good schools where anybody can move anywhere.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by ghaff on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:52AM (#24177766)

Working remotely where practical seems like one fix.

I'm in a very livable town. It's just not walkable given the acres of land with just a few houses around me.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by heavyset_go on Sunday August 16, 2020 @05:16PM (#24181397)

Rush hour traffic is just as bad out in suburbs, and in some ways worse, because the roads are designed for much less congestion.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday August 16, 2020 @09:48AM (#24177733)

For comparison, US commute times are close to the shortest among developed countries. I don’t know much about school quality, but most towns and cities in the country allow people to easily get where they want to be.

(source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/521886/travel-time-spent...)

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