Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by hbosch on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:12PM (#25338379)

I had a whole long thing typed out. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt instead, and assume you didn't mean to generalize suburbs and exurbs as racist and homophobic, artless, desolate and uncivilized places.

I live in a quaint little town by the water, a decent drive away from a major city. I'm a tech worker that chose to move, because city perks didn't outweigh the city stress.

I would say that for anyone considering the change, think about what you want out of your everyday life and move wherever gives you that. Do not lock yourself into an expensive city because it has something that you don't see yourself enjoying every day. In my town, I can walk with my daughter to a local beach that has zero tourists. I have a garden, and a detached home office, and a garage wood shop, and two cars (one for hauling family, one for hauling lumber). I live close to my suburban in-laws, who get great joy out of seeing their grandkids on the weekend. Those are things that no major city in the world could give me, reasonably, and are the reasons why I would never move back.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by tannhauser23 on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:07PM (#25338995)

People who write stuff like the OP have never actually been to other parts of the country. Good! Let 'em stay in SF.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by commandlinefan on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:27PM (#25338570)

We actually do have high quality produce and food here in North Texas, too.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by tekknik on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:53PM (#25340074)

Pretty much anywhere other than SF can have fresher food. It’s a city, you can’t compete with farm fresh from down the road.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by joshuamorton on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @01:51AM (#25342624)

Uhm, there's some of the most diverse produce farmland in the country close to the bay. You get a much wider variety of farm-fresh bproduce there then in much of the rural south, for example (and yes I've lived in both).

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by tekknik on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:53PM (#25348857)

Yet you’ll notice they’re not on the top of the list, therefore my statement stands:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/196114/top-10-us-states-...

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by joshuamorton on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:18PM (#25350774)

"Pretty much anywhere other than SF can have fresher food." Says nothing about being limited to the 7 states with more farms than California (to say nothing of the different crops that are grown on these farms: Iowa grows almost entirely corn and grains, so your fresh produce is going to be limited, or you'll be getting things from smaller boutique farms, which you'll find in all states and so produce depends mostly on climate).

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by tekknik on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @03:58PM (#25351269)

> you’ll be getting things from smaller boutique farms

Bingo!!

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by hbosch on Monday December 07, 2020 @10:03PM (#25341199)

Wow. But... how do you survive long-term without Blue Bottle and SFMoMA?

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