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The tech industry is mainly South Bay (you know, Silicon Valley.) Any tech being in SF is a last-decade phenomenon, possibly a zero-interest-rate one.

Since SF has some of the worst governance in the country, maybe it won't last that long. There's always East Bay.

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Please no, I like the square footage I get for my rent. Keep all the startups on the bourgie side of the bridge and tunnel.

East Bay (by which I assume the Tri-Valley and LaMoraga+Walnut Creek) always had a massive tech presence - going from Livermore+Sandia+Berkeley Labs to PacBell to PeopleSoft to HPC@Cheveron+PGE to Workday+Veeva today and the Telcos in LaMoraga+Walnut Creek. Most Asian and White techies with families try to buy houses out there hence why you see Palo Alto level housing prices.

If by East Bay you mean Oakland and its denizens, I don't see it happening. Oakland+Berkeley local govt makes SF appear very startup friendly.

I call it the East-east Bay, having lived in Lafayette and Walnut Creek after I left SF proper.

> LaMoraga

I've heard it as LaMorinda - Lafayette, Moraga, & Orinda

Your right. I always forget Orinda in that acronym. So much for growing up in the Tri-Valley

Some company would have to pull themselves by the bootstraps and just go somewhere else close-ish to SV (East Valley? North?)

Pick a city who wants to get the money and has fewer NIMBYs and has space to build. Move one office there and incentivize who wants to be there

This is how it was in the "good old days" with factories, no? But instead of IceRock, WI it will be a place close to the valley

But sometimes companies are lazy for places that don't have avocado toast I guess.

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