[realcleanguy]

That’s costly. I know while I worked for PacBel and SBC bought us, the CEO, Ed Whitacre has a major disagreement with Gavin Newsom when he was mayor of SF and out HQ was there, Ed closed it, moved all operations to San Ramon and took a billion out of the SF economy. SF never recovered from that.

[Myrddin]

I was with Pacific Telephone starting in 1980 and left PacBell in 1991. I recall having meetings in downtown SF, then later in San Ramon. The San Ramon building was huge. Lots of rats in office spaces in the early weeks. My office was in San Diego, so lots of flights on PSA and later Southwest. The attack swans at San Ramon were always a bother.