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They are very different propositions.

San Jose: your average American city, in terms of looks, but considerably more upscale.

San Francisco: an NYC-style "world-class city." It's trying for that title in terms of tempo, density, architecture.

Doesn't always succeed of course, but the cities are fundamentally going after different goals.



It was a bit of an imitation of NYC at the peak of the pre-COVID boom, but I travel to both regularly, NYC has 100x more energy than SF. SF is akin to cities like Austin or Denver, we’re talking a city with only an 800k population.


San Jose is just expensive, not upscale.




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