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Sometimes, HN seems like a local San Francisco magazine. For example, just from accidental clicks on beautifully mysterious article headlines, I've learned more about SF's housing problems than I know about the situation in my own city.

There's nothing wrong with this blog post, but as one of the many readers that live more than 50 km away (in my case, 9000), it is profoundly irrelevant.

Maybe we can add a [sf] tag to local news/blog headlines?

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For what it's worth, I don't live anywhere near SF, and found this article interesting, which is why I submitted it.

The thoughts about local action, and improving the place you live in first, apply to everyone involved in the tech scene, wherever they live, as we tend to dream about having global impact without thinking about making small, local and concrete changes instead. So I don't feel it is profoundly irrelevant at all because the problems raised are felt everywhere in slightly different ways, even if the solutions proposed are local. Here in London there is an analogous situation around shoreditch and old street - formerly very deprived areas which are seeing an influx of money and very uneven development.

Or maybe you can move to San Francisco :)

But that place has housing problems!

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