i did and am remote now. prior to that i lived in sf for 7 years. a lot to love about the city, but not enough to keep me there anymore. lack of decent affordable housing seems to be the root of the city’s problems and i don’t see that changing in my lifetime.

As a young man, moving to SF was stimulating and launched my career. But now as a middle-aged man it became too depressing stepping over junkies passed out in front of my expensive yet crappy apartment just to discover my car had been broken into again. all for the pleasure of commuting to a mostly empty office to have video meetings with international colleagues.

not to say that these problems are unique to sf, it seems opioids have devastated many cities in america as has unaffordable housing. a broad solution could be to reduce wealth inequality or heavily tax those who insist they need to own more than 3 homes, but that’s basically asking the powerful to relinquish their power, which rarely happens.