Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy

Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by hashkb on Monday December 07, 2020 @05:23PM (#25338516)

Everyone brings that up. All the time. As one of the (maybe not elite) tech people who has left the Bay Area, I can tell you that we're well known braggarts. The "SF attitude" actually makes it harder for us to integrate into new communities.

Edit: also, SF isn't _that_ walkable; have you spent time in NYC? SF was a huge letdown to me once I had lived there for a couple of years.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by onecommentman on Monday December 07, 2020 @08:17PM (#25340318)

When you can have an entire South Park episode predicated on the notion of smugness in San Francisco, you can be assured the rest of the country is aware of, and partially buys into, that characterization.

https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Smug_Alert!

Now, it’s not bragging if it’s true. The problem is...well, it’s a big, wide, wonderful country and world with lots of great places and ways of life to be discovered. Keep an open mind, and try to keep a closed mouth. Reminds me of the buttons that proclaimed “I don’t care how you do it in NYC”.

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