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The people using any of the other canceled projects weren't real nor affected?

You seem to want to make this more than the others, but in doing so, you've negated all of the others.

Are you comparing losing homes to losing access to some social media app?

I think they were comparing losing a home to losing a service that your business or income source depend on. The second actually seems worse to me as losing your source of money means you lose your home along with everything else.

Oh come on. The construction didn't even start yet; that's not people "losing homes".

If you Google "San Jose Google Construction," you don't even have to click into an article to learn that there has already been a large amount of demolition.

As if G+ is the only thing that's been canceled

Or the people working on those cancelled projects...

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