San Francisco, home to about 840 000 people, 6-12% of whom work in tech, . Add to that people with law and financial backgrounds, whose primary clients are tech companies. Simply put, is a city made up of techies and the rest. according to Quora San Francisco today San Francisco occupies a 7x7 mile area between Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay. You can easily walk the city across in less than 3 hours and San Francisco’s land deficit is the real issue. You’ve heard of the in the Bay Area. Long-time residents in order for techies to come in and pay $3000+ a month for shitty 1-bedroom apartments. gentrification crisis getting evicted Every week entrepreneurs, programmers and designers from all over the world fly in to San Francisco in search for their “gold nugget”. Limited land combined with seismic activity in the area — multiplied by high salaries in the tech industry means the rent climbs month after month, both for residential and meaning mostly low-rise housing, aka less apartments — office spaces, which are now the highest in the US. Slowly, most of those working in the service industry, unless they’re lucky and got rent control and a landlord who isn’t an ass, start moving out of the city, as living in San Francisco becomes less and less affordable. And while the majority of people move to the East Bay the cost of living rises further, and mega-commuting from or is now actually a thing. — 1.5 hours a day commute time — Sacramento Las Vegas San Francisco is exploding right now with the tax money pouring in, but even with minimum wages at $12.25/hour you can’t afford anything but a room in Tenderloin. — up $5, compared to US-average — One day everyone outside the tech-industry would move to South California, Oregon or Nevada, leaving us techies on our own. Bart trains will become automated, Lyft will come up with self-driving cars to drive us to Mission on a Friday night, Amazon drones will deliver us packages and will deal with everything else you need delivered. will become an ordinary part of our lives and bars will use Spotify to put the music on. Onfleet Robobaristas So what are the problems the tech industry is solving? Are we disrupting industries or is our industry the disruptor? Are we solving the problems that need to be solved or are those the problems we ourselves created? Shop-assistants, bartenders, waiters, taxi-drivers — all of the professions that will become obsolete in the next 50 years because there isn’t enough land in the City by the Bay. is how hackers start their afternoons. We’re a part of the family. We are now and happy to opportunities. Hacker Noon @AMI accepting submissions discuss advertising &sponsorship To learn more, , , or simply, read our about page like/message us on Facebook tweet/DM @HackerNoon. If you enjoyed this story, we recommend reading our and . Until next time, don’t take the realities of the world for granted! latest tech stories trending tech stories
