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It's even more pronounced in SF, and it's probably the best thing that has happened to the city in decades, minus the obvious catastrophe of the pandemic itself. A nice studio apartment in a decent neighborhood can be had now for $1500; something unthinkable a year ago. Hopefully this can help start to revitalize the city's culture into something more than a monolithic tech frat party.

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The workers will be back. As long as insufficient housing is allowed to be built, the culture will stay monolithic, split between grandfathered aging rich progressives and tech bros.

Either that or the city will crater like Detroit. Always possible.

Are rents still decreasing? I look on craigslist from times to times and I think I'm seeing less apartments available than like 3 months ago.

Although I'm looking at the prices and for what I used to pay for an old 1br, I can get the same but 3br and a parking in low pac height.

They seemed to have pretty much bottomed out. All of the good places and good deals get snatched up within a week or two of listing. The demand is still higher than the supply. Although there does seem to be more places available in the less desirable parts of the city (the northeastern bit) which suggests to me that a significant portion of the people who couldn't really afford to be here have left.

Where are you finding places for $1500? I'm seeing most stuff around the $2000 range.

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Mostly russian hill

I would argue that it's not monolithic tech bros. It's a monolithic culture that mostly has tech bros. When you don't have good boundaries on subgroups then you don't have a chance for groups to form identities.

Why learn the group's mannerisms/collective behavior when they're scared that they may be called "non-inclusive".

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