[Olog-hai]

Would only be SF that wants squalor rather than an economy.

[Paine in the Neck]

Google seems to be becoming the Left’s next Standard Oil, Ma Bell, Coca Cola, Exxon, McDonalds, Halliburton. I hope they enjoy the attention.

[Slings and Arrows]

> Would only be SF that wants squalor rather than an economy.

Unemployed people have more time for unnatural acts.

[Viennacon]

You vote lib, you get lib. May they all reap what they sow.

[yldstrk]

Telegraph won’t let me read the article without subscribing

[a fool in paradise]

iWalmert Ping!

[Dilbert San Diego]

Another version of the story was that she went to a bar called Molotov’s in San Francisco, which was where this happened. I wonder if they serve Molotov cocktails there..............

[SamAdams76]

The liberals loved Google when they were just starting out, and the employees went to work in shorts and sandals and roller-skated down the hallways, or hopped around on giant bouncy-balls as they tried to think up whimsical tricks to pull on their search site (i.e. Google is going to put a research center on the moon - apply now!)

Now that they are a big evil corporation like Microsoft who pull down billions of dollars a quarter in profits, they are not quite so adored by the San Francisco socialists anymore.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

There's a certain segment of Google employees - doesn't seem to be the developers or architects, more the peripheral types involved in non-technical roles, and always single - who prefer to live all the way up in San Francisco. I have no idea why, SF is even more expensive than Silicon Valley, the weather is much worse, parking is non-existent and increasingly the whole city smells like some vagrant relieved himself not too far away.

Anyway, if some hipster douche wants to live up in SF it's because she completely agrees with and supports the mindset up there - she's just surprised that it bit her in the butt when she expected to be the one braying at others about their evils.

[Regulator]

the otherwise tolerant, liberal and peace-loving population

San Francisco is none of those things.

Some of the most violent, ideologically rigid and IN-tolerant people you will ever confront.

[Texan5]

The odd and colorful homeless if all types capering and begging on the streets is probably a better tourist attraction than sensible industry-and SanFran has been a place to visit and watch the freak show for a long time...

[dalereed]

Anyone driving a car with that garbage on their face should go to jail!

[Billthedrill]

Could be a bit of hyperbole going on here. I don’t see Google Glass laying waste to more than 50 or 60 blocks of downtown San Francisco. 100, tops.

[upchuck]

Last 'graph of the article:

Miss Slocum believes differences will be resolved. “I’m really excited about the time we’re living in,” she said. “Every day there is some new invention that’s going to dramatically change our lives.”

Sara honey, you may not know it, but there are millions of people, right here in the US, who don't want their lives "dramatically changed" by some intrusive, crappy piece of technology.

Here's a challenge for you: read 1984 and look at the path you're going down.

If that proves a bit daunting for you, maybe you can struggle through the Cliff Notes.

[Dallas59]

SF won’t settle for anything less than becoming a 3rd world slum....How’s that for equality?

[Gen.Blather]

The article says, “San Francisco, where a section of the “otherwise” tolerant, liberal and peace loving population…”

Then the article goes on to demonstrate that they are not liberal (in the real sense of the word) or peace loving. They are, instead, liberal in the modern political sense of not tolerating anybody different or more “diverse” than themselves. How can people maintain the cognitive dissonance of what they call San Franciscan’s who act this way and the way those same people actually act? I’d simply describe them as entitled, angry people upset that there are those living around them making much more money and having way cooler gadgets. These same San Franciscans would be throwing their wooden shoes into the new mechanical looms that were taking their home weaving jobs. (The shoes were called sabot, hence the word sabotage.) What do you call throwing a brick through buss windows?

[Carriage Hill]

[vpintheak]

Angry liberals, who’d a thunk it!

[x]

Would only be SF that wants squalor rather than an economy.

Why would that be so terribly hard to understand?

Wasn't the city more interesting and lively in the past?

Even in places where I've lived gentrification isn't any unalloyed blessing by any means.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— And, most of all, there is anger over spiraling rents and evictions as young tech workers colonize previously low-income areas. -—

Obviously real estate prices should be permanently fixed. Because... Uh... Just because.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

there is anger over spiraling rents

and, yet, they keep voting for polices/taxes/regulations that help accelerate the rise in their rents...go figure