International travel into the US is now quite a terrible (and increasingly intrusive) experience. This is probably going to start affecting academic conferences, if it hasn't already. (Which will screw US-based grad students too, of course.)
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It's affecting academic conferences already. But that's only part of SF's problem.
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Visitors to GDC may also not be aware that SF has micro-neighborhoods, and you don't have to go far from Moscone to be in sketchyville.
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I remember a visit to SF a rather long time ago for a conference (I think Usenix), where the conference organizers very seriously told us 'do not walk one block south of here, you really don't want to go there'.
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I believe the conference hotel was just on the north side of Market on the east side of SF, back in the days time when Mission was very '...'.
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