Why I Live in San Francisco

It's a valiant effort to defend living in SF, at a time when many others are critical of the idea, and I applaud the effort. I am not convinced, but I admire the spirit.

There is even some justification to many of his points. Any essay that makes interesting points and stimulates interesting thoughts, even if by defending a point that I disagree with, is well worth reading.

I can't help noticing, though, that he mostly seems to be contrasting the idea of living in SF with the idea of living in the urban Northeast, or else Miami. It is as if he has never noticed the "flyover country".

I also have the impression that the government in, say, NYC has at least pivoted squarely in the direction of acknowledging and attempting to address the problem(s), whereas SF government has not (or at least if they have it is not apparent from my own, admittedly rather distant, perspective).

Lastly, there have been three office buildings sold in SF recently (the first in years), and they all sold for very steep discounts on previous valuations (>2/3 reduced). As night follows day, every other office building owner in SF is going to go to court to get their property tax valuation reduced. It is not clear to me how SF will cope with the budget cuts that are required.

Florida beaches are second to none as far as the continental US is concerned. With a lower cost of living in cities like Tampa versus San Francisco, it's somewhat of a no brainer.

The city has some awesome unique attributes that make it wonderful in many ways, it also has a big problem its politicians need to address. Both things are simultaneously true, and your opinion on whether it's good or not is based on how highly you weight the two things(or you don't live there and are just making up an opinion based on ideology)

"Two years after the memes began, it seems as if moving Silicon Valley to Miami was largely a COVID-era—and zero interest-rate—phenomenon. Bluntly, many find San Francisco boring. Whatever else it is, Miami is indisputably not boring."

Did they get the two cities switched in that last part?