Tech elites leaving San Francisco threaten Silicon Valley's supremacy
San Fransisco isn&#x27;t part of Silicon Valley.  You have to drive for, like,
an hour to get to SV from here.<p>SF isn&#x27;t a nice town.  It has nice aspects and places, sure, but it&#x27;s
always been pretty rough here just under the surface.  The initial
Mission was like a concentration camp for Indians.  I just found out that SF State University is built on an Ohlone graveyard.  Chinatown was harsh,
the population was almost entirely male, except for prostitutes who were
often enslaved[1].  There were gangs of bandits living under the piers.<p>What I&#x27;m saying is, folks moving here with their great tech jobs and
expectations of picket fences and rose gardens are a little naive.  You
moved to a freak down and then got freaked out by the freaks.<p>It&#x27;s always been a weird place to go to start a software business.
E.g. Twitter moving into the center of skid row was bizarre.  They&#x27;re not
Mother Teresa?<p>[1] &quot;The White Devil&#x27;s Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco&#x27;s Chinatown&quot;
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