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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.

I'm glad you have loads of pals in SF. Last year on my birthday my dad got me a pony.

There are a lot of great people there. And I never meant to suggest that there aren't non-tech people in the midst of they city's catering to the tech industry. I do, however, mean to stress that the tech industry has both good AND bad effects on local populations, depending on where you fall along the spectrum.

There is a lot of open drug use in the tenderloin and a whole host of other problems. I don't mean to downplay this. But displacing people in acts of "improvement" isn't always as neat and tidy as one may think. The displaced have to go somewhere. The end. The world is broken. People don't get along. Everyone is standing on a soapbox with a blindfold over their eyes and fingers in their ears.

Lets all just ride bikes naked.