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Originally Posted by park123
Yes it's amazing how San Francisco is turning into America's 2nd city, at least economically. Amazing because it's physically built as a medium-size provincial city with a pleasant suburban periphery. Not as the 2nd megacity of the world's largest economic zone. You would think physical limits would have choked off it's growth by now.
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It isn't, though. SF isn't even in the Top 5 U.S. economies. Downtown SF probably has half the jobs of downtown DC or Chicago. And it's the San Jose MSA, not the SF MSA, driving the growth.
The Bay Area has a huge, wealthy economy, but SF isn't the primary source of said wealth, so it's inaccurate to link the wealth to SF (city's) characteristics. It would be like saying "Geez, the NY metro economy is so huge, but why is that so when Long Island is mostly just bedroom communities with few job hubs". LI isn't driving the wealth.