Ask long time Mountain View residents what it's like to live in the online advertising capitol of the world. Their property values are way up but quality of life is worse. Attracting tech giants to your city is in certain ways a Faustian bargain. Be careful what you wish for.
Care to elaborate on this a bit? I imagine things like bad traffic are due to poor urban planning and lack of transit-oriented or walkable/bikeable design.
I imagine a lot of misdirected blame towards the economic boom instead of NIMBYism.
Edit: Forgot about Game Kastle and Lee's Comics. Really I could go on all day. These community establishments are gone and never coming back ever, as long as Google lives.
We know that decentralization and redundancy have massive advantages in systems. Yet we (or at least - rich investors and CEOs and similar) also want to get rid of it in favor of centralized riches.
The financialization of everything, with the drive to concentrate profits into fewer and fewer extremely-big winners, instead of having an organic ecosystem of research, production, and development, is very fragile, all for the benefit of a fairly small few at the very top.