X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to San Jose

Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by rahimnathwani on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @10:08AM (#41171000)

After I moved to Beijing, my first job was at a company opening a network of village banks. The villages had a population of around 1 million. SF has 850k people.

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Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by lucianbr on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @11:20AM (#41171763)

There's a theoretical limit of 1400 villages in the entire country at that size, and that's assuming zero population in cities. I don't see how it can be true.

If a village has 1 mil, then China is probably entirely made up of something like 40 cities and 500 villages, plus some smaller stuff.

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Re:X is closing San Francisco HQ and relocating staffers to ... by brabel on Tuesday August 06, 2024 @02:27PM (#41173703)

Well, there are more than 100 cities in China with over 1 million people:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...

From the perspective, I would think a city of 800k is definitely midsized if you compare with China.

I'm from Brazil, and we would definitely say 1 million people is a midsized city there (I don't live there anymore). For example, have you ever heard of Campinas? Well, it has a population of over 1.2 million people, and everyone I know around the area call it a midsized city.

But no, no one in their right mind would say a 1 million people city is a village :D.

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