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drpancake on July 18, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: The San Francisco Rent Explosion

Here's my ill-informed take on the dilemma (I no longer live in SF):

* More high-rises means that SF loses it's charm

* The technorati are cash rich so they'll keep on coming anyway

* Soaring rents are forcing out those who make SF the desirable, culturally rich place that it is

* Eventually this corrects itself and Oakland becomes the desirable, culturally rich place (already happening)

* Rinse and repeat

jquery on July 18, 2013 [–]

> Soaring rents are forcing out those who make SF the desirable, culturally rich place that it is

If by culturally rich you mean burner babies, human freak shows, and unemployed artists who've depleted their trust-fund, then yes.

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