/fa/ - Fashion

>>15653139
>you don't want to be a tech city. It brings in money but holy shit, you really don't want it
>t.bay area fag
You want the money because it brings in development. Bayniggers have a problem with development because muh painted ladies and antiques with a pronounced lack of affordable housing options (not that preserving antiques is bad, I'd be pissed if they'd start bulldozing our old architecture like churches and other buildings for more ugly-ass steel and glass, but I look at the prices/rates and it's looking absolutely ridiculous).
Furthermore, pic related is why shit is so expensive to do anything: you have to build factories like fucking hospitals nowadays, granted it's Mirror's Edge but seriously, any comparably new value-adding technology is located in such standardized manufacturing plants/laboratories. It's almost impossible to build any sort of space that would be practical or cheap enough for a local startup to use. Chicago needs better manufacturing plants but there is no money to refit any of the old infrastructure around us to those standards, and thus we are stuck with miles upon miles of empty warehouses.
Also to me, late 2000s/early 2010s reminds me of the appropriation by IKEA of DIY culture and aesthetics and bleaching them to meaninglessness. It's like a Hot Topic for Karens, without any offensiveness scrubbed. Hence the Mirror's Edge pic.