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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by fragmede on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:45PM (#25561240)
For some it's a practical, not emotional. If your job is in the city, and does not allow working remotely, the choices are either commute an hour by car each way, commute for roughly as long via public transportation, or live closer to work.

Hopefully with Covid forcing more sane remote work policies across the board, fewer people are forced to live somewhere they don't want to.

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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by imtringued on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:07PM (#25561441)
That's basically what happened. There is an overabundance of jobs but since there is no need to live in San Francisco the fundamental mismatch between commercial and residential property has been resolved temporarily.
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Re:Average Rent in San Francisco Has Dropped $1k This Year by ghaff on Monday December 28, 2020 @05:46PM (#25564180)
Though there was mostly never a need to live in SF for a lot of the tech company jobs. Many/most were people who wanted to live in a city in the Bay Area even if their jobs were in the South Bay. I assume it's an exodus from the Bay Area generally.
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