Paul Graham on Twitter: "It's hard to predict for sure, because you're trying to guess which of two really powerful forces will prevail: the attractiveness of the Bay Area, and the repulsiveness of the Bay Area.… https://t.co/Zjert04khu"

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1. Raymond Durk‏ @RaymondDurk 1 Dec 2020
  Replying to @paulg @garrytan
  
  The Bay Area is great. Pockets of the Bay Area eg San Francisco are the source of most of the criticism.
  
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1. Inherited Capital LP‏ @WealthCapital1 1 Dec 2020
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  Harlem used to be the coolest part of NYC, and brooklyn used to be a ghetto... things change
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1. Wayne Vaughan‏ @WayneVaughan 1 Dec 2020
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  The startup culture of Bay Area is increasingly being exported to other parts of the world. Remote work has been normalized. This makes other urban centers more competitive. In a way, this is a huge success.
  
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1. WeThePeople‏ @rkr_merc 1 Dec 2020
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  Evolution removes the un-necessary and refreshes. This is fantastic for bay area. Out goes the social media engineer. Makes room for the new 'hard to build' engineer (healthcare/transportation/....). So start of a refresh cycle. So we will look at 2030 and say wow! COVID helped.
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1. SaveMeeJeebus‏ @SaveMeeJeebus 5 Dec 2020
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  Covid-19 and the government restrictions it spurred greatly attenuated the attractiveness and amplified the repulsiveness (in SF this is especially true). Pent-up demand and open store fronts are going to lead to an explosion of creative economic activity when covid ends
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