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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by kibwen on Tuesday May 09, 2023 @01:38PM (#35877780)
Not all industries will be equally impacted by WFH. SF is being gutted because the only equipment a programmer needs is a computer. If you're looking for a healthy metro area that will weather the WFH realignment, look for one whose primary industries require equipment that you can't pick up at Best Buy. Things like healthcare, biotech, and research universities (just to name a few) will still require butts in seats.

(Furthermore, in the long term SF will be fine because the geography and climate is beautiful, and people will always be clamoring to live there regardless of industry, in the same way people desire to live in Honolulu. But it's in for a rough time in the near term as the tech industry diasporizes.)

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Re:Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. ... by dumbotron on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @03:20AM (#35884650)
> SF is being gutted because the only equipment a programmer needs is a computer

I think that's only half of it. The other half is a lot of people were only in SF for the money. When given the opportunity to leave and make the same money, they did.

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