Yes, you pay an SF premium. You pay a premium for most major cities, and the worse housing is, the higher the premium. But I'd bet moving to the South Bay isn't happening for that reason. SF pricing has a halo effect on the South Bay, and your savings will be minimal, if any. (I see little differences in South Bay and SF salaries, for larger companies)
What I'd wager precipitated the move is SF rents are stupidly high , and then you combine that with half the twitter offices being empty. If you believe loopt, San Jose office space is ~ half the cost of SF. Half the space, at half again cost - their real estate bill shrinks by 75%. And given that Twitters bill is likely ~$40M-50M/month, that's a good chunk of savings.
> South Bay & Peninsula housing is actually more expensive than SF
San Francisco is $957/sqft median listing price [1]
Palo Alto is $1800/sqft median listing price. [2]
Hell, I live in Redwood City and the median is $996/sqft.
1. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/San-Franci...
2. https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Palo-Alto_...
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/San-Jose_C...
The Santana Row neighborhood ("Winchester Orchards") is pretty comparable, at $910/sf though. I was actually thinking of Mountain View & Sunnyvale, which are considered decent places to live in the South Bay but aren't quite as elite as Palo Alto. They are both about $1.2K/sf:
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Mountain-V...
https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-search/Sunnyvale_...
I’m very much not in the Valley or even the U.S. but I’ve seen a lot of videos and photos of SF streets being littered, about homelessness, drug use, something called bopping. Isn’t this real, or is it far less common than those videos make it out to be? Interested to hear this from people in SF.
As a resident, it’s extremely disheartening and must be fixed. The Tenderloin has been bad for years, but fentanyl has taken it to the next level.
However, most neighborhoods are different. Most are free from encampments and open-air drug use. Many residents just avoid downtown and some aren’t wise to how bad it really is.
Hence why the city is still so expensive.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/is-x-in-the-room-with-us-righ...
It's also very much intended to get a reaction, isn't it? Sort of like a swear word for lefties.
There is a very small but very vocal subset of posters that would take this opportunity to weigh in on the latter as being mislabeled, though I have not taken up previous suggestions to deeply familiarize myself with his writings in order to disabuse myself of some perceived error in judgment.
I tend to keep scrolling when I see someone use a word in a way that I disagree with. In the case that I do feel compelled to correct someone I certainly don’t see the value in copy/pasting a vague insult about their sanity. That is, to me, a genuinely strange decision to make given so little stimulus.
0 https://x.com/RichardBSpencer
So, I re-iterate. If you're unironically calling people Nazis in 2024, you're either a political extremist, not all there in the head, or completely ignorant of history. Often it seems to be a combination.
The majority of people would understand, given context clues, what the phrase “the nazis ruining twitter” refers to. To those that were still confused, my examples of neo-nazi white nationalists with sizable followings (for example, the first one, who helped organize the Unite the Right rally[0]) should clear that up entirely. No one, literally no one at all would think that I meant that Herman Göring is retweeting Harambe memes.
The “are the nazis in the room with you?” joke isn’t really as much of an own as you might have thought. Instead of signaling “Get a load of this guy that thinks there’s ghosts in his computer!” you’ve kind of signaled “I would like to take this time to share with you all that, due to my specific and stubborn refusal to understand context clues or acknowledge that words can be used differently over time, whenever I see this particular word I can only envision a guy that thinks there’s ghosts in his computer! My mind can only summon the one image!”
Twit-er...X, isnt raking in cash like it used to. Musks changes like reinstating hate speech accounts and the blue check fiasco had a direct negative effect on advertising revenue and accelerated already downward subscriber trends. Leaning out the physical side of the already agile digital side was a good idea im not sure twitters old guard would have considered.
San Francisco has seen a talent exodus after the global pandemic. no senior SRE with 20 years of experience --whos also made to show up to the office five days a week-- is going to entertain San Francisco's traffic, crime, homelessness, or general congestion for even a minute.