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'A stab in the back.' How Elon Musk's decision to move X from San Francisco is stirring mixed emotions
LA Times via Yahoo ^ | 9-13-2024 | Wendy Lee, Queenie Wong

Posted on 09/16/2024 1:37:49 PM PDT by Vendome

When Elon Musk took over Twitter in 2022, it marked a new era for the struggling San Francisco company.

Twitter, now known as X, is expected to close its San Francisco headquarters this month, leaving behind the Mid-Market neighborhood it has called home since 2012. The company is reportedly moving its headquarters to Austin, Texas, but plans to relocate its San Francisco employees to San José and Palo Alto, ...

... another blow to a city...buffeted by high-profile business departures and once held up Twitter as a key part of its revival. Downtown San Francisco's vacancy rates have ballooned...

Confronted with a falloff in foot traffic, major retailers such as Nordstrom and Anthropologie also shut their stores amid heightened concerns about crime, theft, vandalism, drug use and homelessness.

X is the second-largest tenant in the Mid-Market neighborhood, leasing 457,793 square feet, according to CoStar, which tracks real estate trends. Vacancy rates in Mid-Market are at their highest in decades at 62%, according to CBRE.

(Excerpt) Read more at yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: babies; californication; dope; duplicitous; elonmusk; sanfransicko; sanfreaksicko; smoking; x
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What a bunch of duplicitous cry babies.

You got and had your way with many of the tech companies and now have a 62% vacancy rate in mid town.

 

SFO City officials are a bunch of A-holes

Elon Musk’s X Is Leaving San Francisco. City Officials Say ‘Good Riddance.’

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/technology/elon-musk-x-san-francisco.html

San Francisco says ‘good riddance’ as X prepares to leave

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/business/elon-musk-x-twitter-moving-san-francisco

San Francisco officials weigh in on departure of Musk's X: 'Good riddance'

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/san-francisco-officials-weigh-in-on-departure-of-musks-x-good-riddance/ar-AA1ppi6m

1 posted on 09/16/2024 1:37:49 PM PDT by Vendome
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another blow to a city...

And why is that??? I dunno, maybe the murders, crap, pee, druggies, robberies, etc..do we feel woke yet??


2 posted on 09/16/2024 1:40:39 PM PDT by silent majority rising (When it is dark enough, men see the stars. Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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Wags!!


3 posted on 09/16/2024 1:43:30 PM PDT by Publius
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'A stab in the back.' How Elon Musk's decision to move X from San Francisco is stirring mixed emotions

San Fransicko deserves every bad thing that can possibly happen to it.

They are fortunate they haven't yet been buried under fire and brimstone.

4 posted on 09/16/2024 1:45:07 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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5 posted on 09/16/2024 1:46:51 PM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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What we are seeing is the result of Democrat policies in the work for decades. To be honest I no longer believe the voters in San Francisco (or California as a whole) have been voting for Democrats. I think it is all a lie. I think they have been cheating every since they gained complete control over most of the institutions in the state. California is a one party state with a lap dog media.

“A stab in the back” is the perfect description of what Democrats have done to the people of California.


6 posted on 09/16/2024 1:47:37 PM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the rusult of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)
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The Chinese need to organize and get behind a candidate and clean up S.F.


7 posted on 09/16/2024 1:49:40 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Vendome

What company would want to stay in Scat Francisco the way it is now?


8 posted on 09/16/2024 1:50:18 PM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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Reap what you sow!


9 posted on 09/16/2024 1:50:56 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (BOYCOTT Anheuser Busch, the NFL, MLB, NBA, NASCAR & Faux Snooze! Molon Labe! Oathkeeper! )
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Fewer people wearing flowers in their hair.


10 posted on 09/16/2024 1:52:18 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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Quite honestly, Austin doesn’t merit X. Some other place in Texas should be awarded X.


11 posted on 09/16/2024 1:52:27 PM PDT by yldstrk
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What irritates me is he’s moving it to frickin Austin. Austin is the hairy cancerous wart on the butt of Texas.


12 posted on 09/16/2024 1:53:36 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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True, make like a living hell for any company and then wonder why they leave.

Just saying kalifornia is not enough, you played those cards and placed your bets. You have been called and you got nothing

But of course it is musk’s fault

They will find a judge that says they can’t move, have to hire everyone back, and change name back to twitter

I mean this in all seriousness musk needs to watch his back


13 posted on 09/16/2024 1:55:25 PM PDT by blitz128
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FOR CHRISSAKES THE CITY HAD TO ISSUE A POOP MAP THAT ENDED UP BEING JUST ONE BROWN BLOB THAT COVERED THE ENTIRE CITY. THE ENTIRE CITY IS GOING BANKRUPT BECAUSE NO BUSINESS WANTS THEIR PROPERTY STOLEN OR VANDALIZED OR THEIR EMPLOYEES RAPED, ASSAULTED OR MURDERED.

There is not ONE city in America under dem controlthat isn’t a 💩hole.

They intentionally destroy EVERYTHING they touch. Funny how NO ONE is mad at the people who allowed and encouraged this to happen.


14 posted on 09/16/2024 1:57:16 PM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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Screw San Fagcisco Politicians and Bureaucrats good and hard in the Rear the way they deserve it.


15 posted on 09/16/2024 1:59:19 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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I had a good time in San Francisco when I attended a conference way back when.

But now, the entrance to the posh hotel I stayed in on Nob Hill is reputedly littered with crap!

No thanks to going back there! Yuk and phooey!


16 posted on 09/16/2024 2:00:26 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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” San Fransicko deserves every bad thing that can possibly happen to it.

They are fortunate they haven’t yet been buried under fire and brimstone.”

Who stabbed who in the back? They created an unsafe work environment themselves first.


17 posted on 09/16/2024 2:04:56 PM PDT by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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MANA

Make Austin Normal Again.


18 posted on 09/16/2024 2:11:47 PM PDT by rfp1234 (E Porcibus Unum)
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There are a lot of ghost towns in the west.


19 posted on 09/16/2024 2:12:07 PM PDT by cuban leaf (2024 is going to be one for the history books, like 1939. And 2025 will be more so, like 1940-1945.)
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Frisco’s problems are self-infflicted. They decided stab business owners and workers in the back by favoring criminals,homeless and welfare artists. Of course, being leftists, they are utterly incompetent and incapable of seeing their own responsibilities. It’s always some else who caused it.


20 posted on 09/16/2024 2:12:34 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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