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America’s billionaire capital is poised to gut public transit (www.motherjones.com)

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I’ve been hearing about this for a while now.

I grew up in the Bay Area. I honestly have no interest in going back there permanently, and I don’t see myself changing my mind:

transit is awful
traffic is awful
cost of living is awful
real estate prices are awful
modern tech culture in Silicon Valley is, imo, absolutely cancerous these days. SO MUCH KOOL AID DRINKING.
annual fires because PG&E is categorically fucking useless and doesn’t maintain anything
not enough seasons (I like actually having 4 seasons of weather)

Boston is where it’s at, imo.

Edit: forgot a big one - the government, while very reliably Democratic, is beset by the fact that a shitload of the state politicians are MASSIVE corporatists. The tropes about CA being a “liberal bastion” (in American parlance - as opposed to conservative) are hugely overstated these days.

[–] logana@lemmychan.org 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

South Park portrayed San Frannies the most accurately to date.

Boston is where it’s at, imo.

Not really. You people need to learn to get away from major cities, especially when you'll never own property in them.