&gt; It is high time for all of the tech companies of Silicon Valley and San Francisco to come together and lobby the hell out of municipal and county governments to push for more housing and better transit.<p>The problem is fractal.  The reason why the companies locate in SF rather than, say, Gilroy is the same reason why the companies locate in Silicon Valley rather than Tulsa, OK, for example.<p>The first problem here is that the executives in these companies want to live in those rich communities, so they don&#x27;t locate the headquarters somewhere sensible.  And lack of telecommuting is driven by the fact that executives can&#x27;t telecommute as everybody now realizes that they actually don&#x27;t do anything.<p>Second, there is a recruiting advantage when your company office is in the &quot;cool&quot; area.  If you put the Facebook HQ in Gilroy, for example, a bunch of the younger folks would choose to work for a company that is located in SF proper.