Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained
by wwweston on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @03:42AM
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> I've lived in at least seven different cities in three continents, and harbor no particular emotional attachment to any of them.
That does help explain why you see locations as essentially fungible. :)
> Apparently I'm incapable of developing an emotional attachment to geographical coordinates.
There's coordinates, and there's community. Places become keys for personal/shared experiences and history, people build up neighbors and networks that provide society, help mitigate risk, and introduce opportunity (and the fewer resources you have, the more important that is).
> We don't need to be in any particular city in order to write code.
Certainly not to write code. To raise money, on the other hand, it seems to be pretty advantageous. Whether that's about dev convenience or VC convenience, though, is probably a key question worth exploring.
The larger point about making other choices than the Bay Area is one I'm very on board with. There are times I wish I lived there and opportunities that have tempted me, but it's also clear to me that SF and the Bay at large have some structural problems and don't have good policy for protecting/fostering the stuff that's important about communities. For the most part, I've chosen to move in other orbits and it's been rewarding.
That does help explain why you see locations as essentially fungible. :)
> Apparently I'm incapable of developing an emotional attachment to geographical coordinates.
There's coordinates, and there's community. Places become keys for personal/shared experiences and history, people build up neighbors and networks that provide society, help mitigate risk, and introduce opportunity (and the fewer resources you have, the more important that is).
> We don't need to be in any particular city in order to write code.
Certainly not to write code. To raise money, on the other hand, it seems to be pretty advantageous. Whether that's about dev convenience or VC convenience, though, is probably a key question worth exploring.
The larger point about making other choices than the Bay Area is one I'm very on board with. There are times I wish I lived there and opportunities that have tempted me, but it's also clear to me that SF and the Bay at large have some structural problems and don't have good policy for protecting/fostering the stuff that's important about communities. For the most part, I've chosen to move in other orbits and it's been rewarding.