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How San Francisco staged a comeback

by sylvainkalache on 2/14/24, 1:39 AM with 88 comments

  • by CaliforniaKarl on 2/14/24, 1:46 AM

  • by yieldcrv on 2/14/24, 3:13 AM

    When I was paying $6,000/month for a publicist, we had articles written like this

    and would also conveniently be number 2 or 3 in buzzfeed listicles, but that wasn’t really for humans

    never number 1, we would put our competitors at number 1 and assume their google alerts or network picked it up. then congratulate them for winding up in the same article, and use that coincidence with conference organizers to have us or our publicist invite them to be on the same fireside chats on stage. that was for humans.

    our Google results look impeccable

    great for our other assumption that our dates would cyberstalk us, I mean investors

    I dont pay the publicist anymore but all those assumptions were true and still pay dividends

  • by epistasis on 2/14/24, 2:12 AM

    The local political scene in San Francisco is beyond broken, but the idea that it's a failed city was always a media fabrication. Based on yet more terrible politics, but just political wish casting from outside of San Francisco.

    To be surprised, you'd have to believe the media and propaganda more than your own eyes and ears.

  • by m3kw9 on 2/14/24, 3:11 AM

    Are people still trying to avoid feces while walking to get a avocado toast?

  • by parineum on 2/14/24, 2:19 AM

    > If you want good schools, public transport or public safety, San Francisco is not the place for you.

    TLDR

    The GDP of the city is way up. Everything else still sucks.

  • by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on 2/14/24, 2:13 AM

    Sure, but also, maybe don't come, the cost of living for locals doesn't need to get any higher. Maybe wait until there's new construction, so it's not a zero sum situation where the only way to get in is to elbow someone else out. Let's not go back to 8 grand per mo for a 2br at Nema.

    SF does everything in its power to not grow, to restrict access. The city population grew barely 20% over the last 70 years, while places like Austin TX went up by 830% during the same time period. Might as well be on different planets.

  • by g42gregory on 2/14/24, 2:50 AM

    The Economist’s trust factor is not making a comeback though, at least not for me.

  • by tummler on 2/14/24, 2:46 AM

    The Economist doth protest too much, methinks.

  • by 1-6 on 2/14/24, 2:38 AM

    Sounds more like propaganda to me.