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Oh and thanks to the tech companies Market street will (eventually) no longer look like total shite. There's been deralict buidlings from 6th onwards for as long as I can remember (10 years?). These are being bought by various tech companies and fixed up for their offices.
Slowly the area is becoming nicer and safer, these "activists" live in the fucking past. They want to pay no/low rent and get everything as though the prices were still in the 50's. It's not the 50's, and life is not going to suddenly stop just because you want it to.
note: on the rent part, I do admit it's insanely priced here. However, the irony is RENT CONTROL is one of the problems that causes it. People with rent controlled places will never move, that means everyone is fighting for the remaining properties. So, of course the high paid tech people are going to price anyone else out of the market. Remove rent control, demolish the old 2 bedroom shitty buildings from the 50's and build some proper modern places. When you've only got around 7miles squared (SF "proper") of land, something has to give you can't have both low prices AND houses for everyone.
Also, most people I know in tech do not actually live in SF proper, they live down in Silicon Valley, or San Jose, or Oakland. I'm still not sure really who all lives in SF, seems to be the poor, bankers, students and then the very wealthy with a small smattering of tech people.