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Job market collapse has people packing |
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| Topic: SF Bay Area |
6:43 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
""I would not be surprised if 50,000 people have left the Bay Area because of the economy," said Ken Rosen, an economist at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business." Exodus from San Francisco Job market collapse has people packing |
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Javawalk: Coffee Centric walking tour of SF |
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| Topic: SF Bay Area |
5:59 pm EDT, Sep 24, 2002 |
"Javawalk is a two-hour walk in the city center. We start at Union Square and wind through Chinatown, Jackson Square and North Beach, the city's Italian district. While we cover the city's coffee roots (much more significant than Seattle's!) and coffeehouse culture (think beatnik), we also spend some time on San Francisco's history, interesting and arcane trivia and stories the Javagirl has collected from many years of living in the city. Truly, some things could only happen in SF! Javawalk also makes a couple of stops at North Beach cafes for a quick java jolt. Since cool weather prevails here, we need coffee year-round in the city by the Bay. Lucky us!" Javawalk: Coffee Centric walking tour of SF |
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Hard Times Prompt an Entrepreneurial Itch |
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| Topic: SF Bay Area |
1:58 pm EST, Jan 27, 2002 |
"Last August, Scott Allison checked to make sure that his phone was still working. It was, but there were no calls, no new clients. With pink-slip contagion sweeping the Bay Area, it looked as if his days as the No. 2 executive at a long- successful public relations agency might be coming to an untimely end. So he did what an increasing number of senior managers uncertain of their job prospects are doing: He set himself up at his own company." ... Hard Times Prompt an Entrepreneurial Itch |
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| Topic: SF Bay Area |
6:21 pm EST, Nov 17, 2001 |
(Do you think WebMD and Eli Lily would be willing [and able] to provide 30 days of free Prozac for an entire state? We may soon know ...) California has been suffering ... Even good news is bad news. ... California is a famously rewarding source of drive-by anthropology. ... In truth this great freak show of a state embodies all the generalizations and defies them, depending on which valley you visit. ... Bright young techies are voting with their U-Hauls ... Optimists will tell you that Silicon Valley has always been cyclical ... "Failure is an essential part of our ecosystem," said Paul Saffo, a Menlo Park technology forecaster. "It's like a forest fire burning space for new growth." [Saffo runs the Institute for the Future.] [A recent opinion poll expressed] "a wish that things will be O.K. ... I don't want to call it denial, but it is not really sustainable." In a State of Denial |
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