[userinanother]

Also homeless camping everywhere and complete city government dysfunction

[jkmcf]

TBF, NYC has regular homeless public defecation based on my last 2 visits there.

[dinvlad]

Jeez. SV tech culture really is a deadly virus

[astrange]

Tech didn't cause this, homeowners did. If it didn't have a high paying industry you'd see blight and disinvestment instead, as you're only left with retirees who don't care about that stuff.

Seattle has unusually good building codes (single-stair is allowed) but no income tax, so in that way it might not benefit from tech as much.

[Apocryphon]

It’s not SV, the entire West Coast from Vancouver to San Diego is like this now.