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>>After all, why stay in a city when everything is closed when you can get the same experience cheaper somewhere else?

If someone is moving due to cost that is displacement in my eyes. If there was not a cost, they would stay.

You claimed there was no evidence, I offered evidence now you say oh no that evidence doesn't count because it doesn't fit my narrative.

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All you provided is evidence that people moved away from San Francisco during the pandemic. We all know that. Many of the people who left could have afforded to stay and chose not to. That is not displacement.

Proof of displacement requires demonstration that people left SF because they could not afford to live there anymore. It's really that simple.

Techies with six-figure incomes leaving town to move back in with their parents during the pandemic doesn't count as displacement.

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