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 dragonwriter on Sunday August 16, 2020 @10:33PM (#24183329)

> If you think San Francisco has poor quality food, you clearly haven’t spent much time there (as you admit) or you don’t have very discerning taste.

Or just are following shallow, presentation-focussed hipster-targetting marketing and being surprised that it leads you to presentation-focussed hipster-targetted food offerings.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by dongvsascript on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:52AM (#24184680)

or, follow me on this. i just walk out onto the street, type "restaurant" into google, and pick something with 4 star and up reviews. no marketing or presentations involved - just what people around there reviewed as good. and the food is average. this isn't bad, but average food with some gems you have to know about and take an uber to, is not a reason to live in a city - and it was presented as such in the comment to which i replied.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by kelnos on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:56AM (#24185017)

If you're seriously suggesting that a Google search for "restaurant" is going to get you a marketing-free, accurate picture of the world around you, I'm not sure what to do with that.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by dragonwriter on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:00AM (#24185043)

> or, follow me on this. i just walk out onto the street, type "restaurant" into google, and pick something with 4 star and up reviews. no marketing or presentations involved

Heh.

Reliance on numerical ratings in online reviews isn't particularly different than reliance on marketing with a specific demographic targeting and, yeah, surprisingly enough it does tend to lead you to the more instagram-ready establishments.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by dongvsascript on Monday August 17, 2020 @02:30PM (#24190233)

right.. when someone eats at a place and gives it a number of stars rating how good it was, it tells you the same about how good it is as instagram marketing. here's the point - you go to sf, get a place around you with good reviews, and the food is overpriced, overpresented, and average in taste.

The OP literally stated a reason to live in SF is the food. That's simply false. It's not poor quality, but it's no reason to live there. It's not better than in an average city.

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Re:Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers f... by dragonwriter on Monday August 17, 2020 @04:17PM (#24191512)

> right.. when someone eats at a place and gives it a number of stars rating how good it was, it tells you the same about how good it is as instagram marketing.

There are distinct demographic trends in online reviews activity that are broadly similar to those involved in instagramming meals, which makes the biases in using aggregate ratings similar to those in favoring Instagram or marketing targeting the same demographic, yes.

(You can get better information from online reviews, but it takes more than blindly following aggregate ratings.)

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