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Cambridge kind of achieves this. A tech-hub surrounding the university where washed-up sandel-wearing techistocracy can get paid to stare into the middle distance. The students are a minimal problem. They have their enclosures.
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a neighborhood in SF struck that balance for me — Cole Valley. An actual valley that semi cut it off from other neighborhoods, lots of interesting people, at least when I lived there. Maybe that UCSF is nearby wasn’t unrelated