BTW, the article states San Fran has a budge surplus? How can that be??
Been working from home for a few years now. A tornado knocked our building down and we switched to work from home. The company decided not to get into a new lease.
I saw a lament from some city government source that there are so few tourists coming into the city now that the muggers have had to rely on robbing residents. LOL!
Pity the poor souls who actually have to live there.
The new “normal” has become a dystopia.
Its happening in New York City as well. No amount of Federal subsidies will revitalize the cities. Foreigners are no longer investing inAmerican urban real estate as a safe haven for their money. Now they are buying farmland when they invest in real estate.
I really don't see it ever coming back to what it was. People have gotten used to working out of their homes and now we have technology that allows you to do pretty much anything remotely so long as you do not have a job that requires manual labor of any type.
Now for our field technicians, our warehouse people and our truck drivers, things have gone along pretty much as they always have. You can't do those kind of jobs from home.
Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication...
If only D.C. looked like that. The representatives working from home, not gathering and conniving, and catching whatever that mystery condition is that overtakes them when they get there.
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Property values for homes north of Gay Frisco are going up basically everyday as more people leave Gay Frisco, move away and work from their home.
Besides having better working conditions, internet connections are reasonable and getting faster everyday.
We have UPS/FedX and US Mail at least twice a day for those willing to pay a little extra beyond normal deliveries on our cul de sac. There was some US Mail deliveries and pickups on our cul de Sac on yesterday’s holiday. UPS and Fed Ex were up and down the street until dark yesterday.
Also, all of these delivery services can be used at stand alone sites or at in store sites in Office Depot and similar business.
One of the most successful sites is next door to a US mail branch office, where to get an inside mail box you could be on a several year list. Some US Mail boxes were passed on from family member to family member under the same business
name.
Now, you can get a mail box and use their counter space, have faxes sent, copies made and packaging whatever needs to be packaged.
The official postal branch is now advertising that they have inside boxes ready to serve you . They also pick up mail at their new competitor several at that branch several times a day versus their own once a day pickup box outside and inside their branch.
Yep one thing big tech, and most businesses, have now figured out is you don’t need 30K sq. feet and and a 50K a month rent these days. Let 80% work from home and keep a rotating 20% on site in much smaller and cheaper offices. And add to that all the restaurant and small retail businesses that have and will go under. Commercial property is and will keep taking a big hit. Amazon, Wal-Mart and the other global corporatists make out big.
I am in San Francisco right now, for a couple of weeks.
The description is apt, especially in the downtown business district. There is hardly anyone commuting in, and most businesses in the area are closed, such as the myriad lunch places, many boarded up. Even high toned deal-making restaurants like the venerable Tadich Grill are closed.
Elsewhere in downtown SF the look is even worse. The homeless swarm is greater than ever. And boarded up businesses are the rule, not the exception, from all around Union Square to Market St. and beyond. Its more Great Depression than tomb, because the homeless are alive at least.
There is even a homeless “gated subdivision” at Civic Center, with the Pioneer Plaza between the Library and the Asian Art Museum closed off by gates and fencing, as a homeless encampment.
At night the vibe is even more grim, purely “Omega Man”, if you remember that Charlton Heston Apocalyptic movie.
Its extremely depressing.
Companies Embrace ‘Work from Home’
Your computer belong to ours like much Xi.
All that poop can be used as fertilizer, too
I like working from home.
The bathroom is a lot closer and cleaner...
Cook food for breakfast before work instead being stuck in a car. Also cook food at lunch time or take a nap : )