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Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by throwmea122 on Monday October 26, 2020 @12:19AM (#24892794)
Sure some people live in SF because they want to be here. Others live (in my case lived) there because of a job. I don't care for SF the city, but I do like the greater bay area.

Having said that, your driving time estimates are incredible optimistic. Squaw is not 3 hours from SF, not even with no traffic (this scenario doesn't really exist) and good weather. Getting anywhere in the bay area also takes significantly longer due to traffic which is pretty bad most of the day.

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Re:Nearly 12M Square Feet of Vacant Office Space in S.F by kelnos on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:12AM (#24894177)
> Squaw is not 3 hours from SF, not even with no traffic (this scenario doesn't really exist) and good weather.

I'm sure this is mainly due to the pandemic, but I just drove back from there last month (slightly farther than Squaw, actually), and it took 3 hours and a single-digit number of minutes. Hell, the travel time Google is showing from Squaw right now is 3 hours and 9 minutes.

I do agree that's atypical. But... so what? "Correct" the parent's statement to "4 hours" and the argument is just as valid. Seems like you're nitpicking and missing the forest for the trees.

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