'Good riddance': Tech's flight
from San Francisco is a relief
to some advocates
NBC News,
by
David Ingram
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
11/30/2020 11:00:55 AM
SAN FRANCISCO — When Chirag Bhakta saw a headline recently that said tech workers were fleeing San Francisco, he had a quick reaction: "Good riddance."
Bhakta, a San Francisco native and tenant organizer for affordable housing nonprofit Mission Housing, is well-versed in the seismic impact that the growth of the tech industry has had on the city. As software companies expanded over the past decade, they drew thousands of well-off newcomers who bid up rents and remade the city's economy and culture.
He said the sudden departure of many tech workers and executives — often to less expensive, rural areas where they can telecommute during the coronavirus pandemic — reveals that
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 11/30/2020 11:06:38 AM (No. 619963)
At least the infection was contained in one area. Now these leftist pukes will be spread around, wrecking whatever new places that they move to.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
gramma b 11/30/2020 11:08:45 AM (No. 619969)
This guy’s a moron. When the tax base flees, who will pay for all
The things to which his “clients” feel entitled?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
planetgeo 11/30/2020 11:18:18 AM (No. 619977)
Says the "tenant organizer for affordable housing," eh. Just wait until the taxes shrivel up, pal. Then you'll be sending catered limo caravans to pick up and bring back all those techies so you can continue milking them.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wilarrbie 11/30/2020 11:24:59 AM (No. 619982)
Hey - it works with surgically implanted refugees - how else to explain 'the Squad' - so let them Red states take on the Silicons! Turn 'em blue in no time.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
WestCoast 11/30/2020 11:25:22 AM (No. 619983)
if sewer by the bay is anything like sewer by the sound (seattle), I read a while back that there were three homeless advocacy groups there where the ceo's salaries were well into 6 figures.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
seamusm 11/30/2020 11:29:45 AM (No. 619986)
I wouldn't care but I truly fear that they are fleeing California and other Dem strongholds and heading to my home state without having learned any lessons as to WHY they needed to flee. God forbid they should have realized they screwed up themselves. Liberals always think they can fix the problems they themselves created without taking personal responsibility.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
SALady 11/30/2020 11:42:43 AM (No. 619990)
Yeah, it's so much better to have homeless drug addicts pooping on the sidewalks than rich tech-yuppies owning nice places, taking care of them, and paying massive taxes to the city to fund all the lie-beral insanity destroying that city.
Proof #892,445,223 that lie-beralism is a serious and dangerous mental disorder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Vesicant 11/30/2020 12:23:29 PM (No. 620004)
Bhakta's bio sez he grew up in the Tenderloin. That explains a lot. Luckily, we don't have to listen to him, 'cuz he's not transgender.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 11/30/2020 12:27:15 PM (No. 620005)
Great! Minneapolis is one of the top tech centers in the country! Now these liberal pukes will move here! Although -100 windchill in January might discourage some Antifa soy boys? They don’t have parents basements here to leach from!
8 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 11/30/2020 12:53:13 PM (No. 620021)
Yeah, it's all the tech workers fault. Local government will now be scrambling for more tax money to support the illegal immigrant friendly and homeless friendly policies that the tech workers financed.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Maggie2u 11/30/2020 2:11:46 PM (No. 620069)
Poster #7, you are absolutely right. And there is no cure for it. The only way out is to think but if they could think, they wouldn't be liberals.
6 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
LadyHen 11/30/2020 2:14:30 PM (No. 620071)
Leftist progressives are an insidious and serious infection that unlike Covid always kills the host.
That said, who is this guy's organization gonna fleece to keep keep him in a job when all the rich gullible libs leave town?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bad-hair 11/30/2020 3:09:01 PM (No. 620094)
SF is going to crash into a deep dark HOLE when ...
1. The people who actually produce (as in programmers) discover that Joe Biden wants to train coal miners to do their jobs.
2, They can work from home in FLORIDA OR TEXAS and stop paying the highest state tax in the country.
3. The streets in Florida and Texas don't smell like excrement because unlike California they're not covered with it.
4. We deal with virus issues in our own way.
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