~some personal news~
A month ago I moved to Los Angeles after living in San Francisco for 9 years.
This thread isn’t a slam against the Bay Area. Quite the opposite…
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Replying to @rrhoover
I relate to this story on many levels - and also feeling pretty close to the point where I'm ready to move somewhere else. SF opened up so many opportunities for me and was the first time I felt like I really belonged in a city.
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Replying to @rrhoover
It's probably related to our age (in addition to SF changing). I wonder if younger generations who are just arriving in SF feel much less of an urge to leave.
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Replying to @DavidSpinks @rrhoover
lol no, you can feel the "transient" status in people who move here for work from Day 1. it's made it really hard for me to find long-term/deep friends etc. bc of that -- i can feel people's lack of attachment to this city and its people...
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The city’s cost makes it impossible for people to make long-standing commitments to it and the incumbent residents prefer it that way.
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truth!
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Newcomers are basically used to cross subsidize the budget and then are blamed for creating all the problems.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @imkialikethecar and
Having been both an LA and SF resident (after London), I sometimes idly speculate if SF’s culture has started to ossify around money as a central value, maybe even since 2008 (a compounding contributor?). Not sure.
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SF’s culture is way too complicated to just be about money. Money has certainly been part of it since the very beginning though!

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Replying to @kimmaicutler @perreau and
SF may be crazy expensive, but it’s culturally way less concerned with money than London or NY (lived in both). It’s one of the things I love about it. Plenty of other things to fix though.
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Replying to @nabeel @kimmaicutler and
Oh the values of counter-culture, choosing to zag when the world zigs, ‘better world’ are all there, I just wonder if the way it shows up now has started to change the mix a little. I hope not.
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