Disloyalty and parasitism. With no hard ties to the community, they treat it like a disposable. Look at how quickly they trashed San Francisco. Looks like Austin is next. I pray for them.
I think that is a valuable point. With respect to SF, I assume you are talking about transient tech workers. I’m not sure I agree with this. In my experience, SF natives are loud advocates of the broken public policies. I think the innumeracy that leads to careless spending and lack of accountability runs deep in both groups.
Thinking about it a bit more, I wanted to acknowledge that I think there’s also a challenge around knowledge. Unless transient population might have a deeper memory for what has worked in the past and not worked in the past, and be better able to hold people accountable.
With some of these people sitting on three passports, I doubt they'd put any deep history to use -- treating a town the same way many mutual funds treat a stock: "this company no longer meets our investment criteria" -- DUMP