In San Francisco, which many tech industry executives abandoned due to the pandemic, many office spaces stand empty and the city streets sometimes-violent drug addicts have taken over in multiple neighborhoods. “San Francisco went from being one of the hottest office markets in the country to one of the weakest,” Patrick Carlisle, Compass’ chief market analyst, told the San Francisco Gate, adding: ‘High tech workers were the ones who were most likely to say, ‘Well if I can work from any place, I’ll move some place where housing costs 90 percent less.” The increases in homelessness and crime have affected the “quality of life ambiance” the downtown once offered, Carlisle said.---https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/more-than-500000-flee-california-since-2020/?fbclid=IwAR1J62CJF06UTtKWL6orzitHLjYuieu34IlYRH-i4N0lfi8FUvoRwncaCFw
