90k households reportedly left SF this year, out of about 360k total.
Voting with their feet against poop, needles, car break-ins, fires, power outages, housing shortages, dysfunctional schools, physical assaults, exorbitant costs, and all the rest.
Voting with their feet against poop, needles, car break-ins, fires, power outages, housing shortages, dysfunctional schools, physical assaults, exorbitant costs, and all the rest.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1141193843515092992
Point being: the exodus is real, as are the problems. Don’t let anyone tell you they’re not.
The silver lining is: SF will never get its monopoly back. Neither will Silicon Valley writ large.
Tech was overconcentrated, and decentralization was overdue.
The silver lining is: SF will never get its monopoly back. Neither will Silicon Valley writ large.
Tech was overconcentrated, and decentralization was overdue.
Note: I thought the numbers were huge, which is why I included cites. It’s possible the 2 definitions of households don’t exactly match, or that in-migration has partially offset loss. More analysis welcome.
Source 1: publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-posta…
Source 2: census.gov/quickfacts/san…
Source 1: publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-posta…
Source 2: census.gov/quickfacts/san…
An important question is how many of the ~90,000 USPS-reported out-of-city changes in addresses during the pandemic are permanent vs temporary (during the pandemic).
We’ll have to wait and see. It may take a while for the vaccine to get deployed. publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-posta…
We’ll have to wait and see. It may take a while for the vaccine to get deployed. publiccommentsf.com/post/u-s-posta…
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