Everything eweitz mentions is spot on. I&#x27;ll just note what my sister said not two moments ago when reading some of these comments. &quot;San Francisco is a baby town, a joke, compared to what&#x27;s going on in Manhattan.&quot; And I kinda have to agree. San Francisco&#x27;s current issues are entirely of their own making. I have no sympathy. I grew up in Queens, lived in Manhattan for 16 years and moved to Dallas a year ago (cause someone paid me.) I&#x27;ve been to SF more times than I can count over the last 10 years for computer related work and conference, etc. You couldn&#x27;t pay me to live there.<p>No other place in the country has the kind of network effect that NYC does. It is entirely due to density and density is a direct result of NYC&#x27;s subway system. As much as New Yorkers love to complain about the subway, and believe me it&#x27;s a sport out here, we would not be able to accommodate the masses we accommodate without it. Transportation and, of course, vertical space is the way we do it. I really don&#x27;t know why this is such a mystery to so many not from here. It&#x27;s kind of glaringly obvious to the most casual of observers.<p>San Franciscans need to stop navel gazing and look up to the sky. Go up, my friends, go up.