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Posted by Jackson Park B Train on Tue Apr 28 18:51:14 2020, in response to Re: PHOTOS: CALTRAN CALTRAIN VII, posted by Jersey Mike on Tue Apr 28 12:44:27 2020. Interesting question. The cultural desert of the Peninsula suburbs is such that many of the techies chose to commute south from SF. The result for CalTrain was the remarkable near balance of NB and SB ridership in both AM and PM rush. Many of them could easily work from home--in fact a Google employee within my clan has often worked from home. In a previous job he was in a work group of Red Hat which included one person in CZ, and one down under. WFH is getting rammed down the throats of the incompetent, and ignorant management types who generated the joke "look busy, Jesus is coming". Yes there are valuable aspects of working in a large office, but many tasks rarely require either the time wasting meetings or the "chats at the drinking fountain".Then, of course we have the arch secessionist suburbanites who already hate the cities and especially the residents who serve them lattes,who will retreat to their autos hoping that enough of their neighbors will WFH that gridlock will not return. Good luck with that. The top line hospitals are all essentially co-located w/ major universities in cities University professors are not (with some exceptions) known for preferring rural/exurban living. Yes, you can do lectures, even seminars, via the web, buit the physical laboratories are not going to move long distances from the rest of the institution. Lastly, of course, there are those of us who actually like urban spaces--browsing in a bookstore is ever so much more fun than looking online. And, for me at least,I miss the live music--I have tix for 3 canceled shows from the last month and a haslf which might be rescheduled in the late fall, but, that doesn't make up for not having the endorphins flowing during and after a good show. Watch the closing doors. |
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