Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
I&#x27;d love to hear from people who want to stay in the Bay area what is unique that you cannot find elsewhere in cheaper locales.<p>I lived in Mountain View for 3 months during 500 startups and the valley proper was the most garden variety suburban existence you could find anywhere.<p>I lived in SF proper off and on and can attest that it certainly has (had?) fantastic restaurants&#x2F;shops and a particular type of culture that many people love. However the basic infrastructure and problems with SF are well known and have been documented.<p>I can&#x27;t see at this point how the former plusses of SF outweigh the latter negatives and frankly I see no inherent plusses to the Valley.<p>It seems that people (technologists mostly) literally only value the valley because of technology companies and even more pointedly - because that&#x27;s where the big VC money lives.