On: Remote work is reshaping San Francisco, as tech workers flee and rents fall

[badrabbit]

These are not impossible problems. They are fixable and we need to agree on the root cause before we can talk about solutions.

[BurningFrog → badrabbit]

There are reforms that would fix the problems. But they are politically impossible to enact.

Moving to a city that already has a functioning society is something one person can do without permission. So people do.

[coffeemug → BurningFrog]

What are examples of cities with functioning societies? My backup plan was NYC, but thanks to de Blasio that's now out.

[BurningFrog → coffeemug]

There are 53 US metropolitan areas with > 1M people.

They all have something wrong with them, but only SF has it's unique set of problems.

So everyone has to figure out what tradeoff works for them.

To me the biggest flaw in SF is the institutionalized Nimby-ocracy and the resulting housing and homelessness crisis, which I think poisons most areas of society.

Texas seems like it has that side of society figured out. It has other serious problems, I know.

[fragmede → BurningFrog]

Specific to the Nimby-ocracy issues of Texas though, many homes have HOAs, so I'm not convinced that Nimby-ism isn't worse in Texas, there's just more land to spread out over.