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> You work for Google, or Apple, for FaceBook, or an accomplished startup.

The irony is that none of those companies have a real presence in the city. Their campuses are miles away. So you live in the city and ride on a tour coach down to your megaplex every day.

I don’t know why anyone strives to live a life like this.

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Google and Facebook have offices in SF proper, and YouTube is located just south in San Bruno. "none ... have a real presence" is a considerable overstatement.

Though yes, a large number of employees do travel south from SF daily.

The larger issue is that the Peninsula and South Bay have resisted housing densification and transport improvements for decades.

It's really not an overstatement. They have some sales offices and some execs like having offices the city so they don't have to commute --but the great majority work in the the main campuses on the penn.

181 Fremont is Instagram HQ and there's an adjacent tower with a huge Facebook SF office. I'd call that a real presence.

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