[Mick]

With Twitter announcing that their employees will be able to work from home forever, even after the reopening, and facebook telling employees more or less the same thing (with the caveat that they will be paid less if they don't live in the Bay Area), I thought this article was interesting:

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/arti...289316.php

Two out of three tech workers would leave San Francisco if they could work remotely.  Now, not all will be able to, and even among those that will be able to, I'm sure some people appreciate the local area.  But if you had a young family, and were given the option of working remotely, why wouldn't you go somewhere where you could get a much larger house (with a home office for you to actually work from home) with a larger yard, for much less money?

The Bay Area has survived the dot.com bust and the financial crisis, so I expect it will survive the coronavirus pandemic just fine.  But I think that one of the biggest sources of fuel for the area: young, well paid, well educated, tech workers may provide less fuel to the area than before.

BC

Could very well be.  My 24 year old lives in an apartment in the East Cut (Rincon Hill, by the SalesForce HQ), chiefly because he can walk quickly to the train.  It looks like he'll only have to go to the office two days a week, so he and his roommate (Lazard Freres) want to move further north.  They're thinking Marina, Nob Hill, North Beach.  My older son lived in Sea Cliff for six years before he moved to Santa Monica, but both my sons prefer SF.

[Mick]

With Twitter announcing that their employees will be able to work from home forever, even after the reopening, and facebook telling employees more or less the same thing (with the caveat that they will be paid less if they don't live in the Bay Area), I thought this article was interesting:

https://www.sfgate.com/living-in-sf/arti...289316.php

Two out of three tech workers would leave San Francisco if they could work remotely.  Now, not all will be able to, and even among those that will be able to, I'm sure some people appreciate the local area.  But if you had a young family, and were given the option of working remotely, why wouldn't you go somewhere where you could get a much larger house (with a home office for you to actually work from home) with a larger yard, for much less money?

The Bay Area has survived the dot.com bust and the financial crisis, so I expect it will survive the coronavirus pandemic just fine.  But I think that one of the biggest sources of fuel for the area: young, well paid, well educated, tech workers may provide less fuel to the area than before.

BC

Could very well be.  My 24 year old lives in an apartment in the East Cut (Rincon Hill, by the SalesForce HQ), chiefly because he can walk quickly to the train.  It looks like he'll only have to go to the office two days a week, so he and his roommate (Lazard Freres) want to move further north.  They're thinking Marina, Nob Hill, North Beach.  My older son lived in Sea Cliff for six years before he moved to Santa Monica, but both my sons prefer SF.