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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by ng12 on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:03PM (#25338958)
And Boston and DC. I wouldn't live in SF without a car unless I was a biking enthusiast.

Also I find that many people who proudly refuse to own a car in SF just end up ubering everywhere.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by rpearl on Monday December 07, 2020 @06:11PM (#25339034)
To be clear I (the original poster in this thread) have lived without a car in the bay area for almost a decade, and I don't Uber anywhere.

NYC is definitely more walkable--and just as expensive. Boston is about as walkable, I think (I haven't spent much time there)--and also pretty expensive!

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by fatnoah on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:54AM (#25347872)
>Boston is about as walkable

Boston is definitely walkable. My wife and I shared a car when living there, and I'd literally go weeks without actually getting in the car (she worked in a suburb, so she needed it for daily driving). Everything was generally within 1/2 mile, including school for the kiddo, sports fields, parks, grocery, hardware, etc. Transit was also convenient and plentiful.

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Re:Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley... by diebeforei485 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @02:32AM (#25342835)
Idk. Pre-covid, I probably used Uber/Lyft two days a month.

Some people do "Uber Everywhere", but I mostly biked/baywheels/muni.

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