San Francisco

And Kirth, don't forget that thanks to the tech companies not only will Market look nicer (whiter? more like an Ikea styled condo?) but it will also displace a particular community that can no longer afford to live there and are too gritty for the rest of SF to accept them. So they'll be shipped out, sometimes literally, with one way bus tickets. I assure you, rents in the tenderloin are not even 1/10 of what they were in the 50s. Please, please, whatever you do, stay where your visions of nicer, safer streets via unbridled tech capitalism are appreciated.

I've a load of pals in SF, not a single one of them works in tech, they all work in social work or journalism or at bars, and not one of them has this highly romantic view of tenderloin, I guess because most of them have worked on 6th and Market before and know exactly what it's about.

If you think that it's somehow a tech/white/ikea thing to not enjoy seeing crack being smoked openly in the street, women being hassled, and violence from dusk till dawn, then you my friend need to work on your people skills. Gritty is one thing. Tenderloin - when I was there - was way beyond that.