"If San Francisco Is So Great, Why Is Everyone I Love Leaving?" By D. Helmut:
"We’re both in our thirties. We understand that with our respective shares of the rent, we could be paying mortgages on entire houses in Denver or Austin. But we are here. Our friends (what’s left of them) and family are here; my job network is here. Two fully-employed middle-class women in their thirties splitting bills on Venmo and figuring out how to most diplomatically accuse the other of eating more of the peanut butter. This is normal in the Bay Area. Only programmers live alone. Only rich programmers own houses."
https://medium.com/s/story/if-san-francisco-is-so-great-why-is-everyone-i-love-leaving-d2b167471c35
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"We hug. We tell each other I love you—something I rarely say—promise to keep in touch, and say all the other sentiments humans use to anesthetize loss. She turns the corner and is gone. I get back into my car. I take a breath. Instantly I crumple, like an angry teenager, gasping and wiping tears all over my face. I want to slam the steering wheel and have my own private 'it isn’t fair' meltdown. But I don’t. The meter maids at SFO are fierce..."
https://medium.com/s/story/if-san-francisco-is-so-great-why-is-everyone-i-love-leaving-d2b167471c35
"I take another breath, remembering that I am happy for her. I’m an adult. People move all the time. This is normal. It’s not my fault she’s gone, that all 12 of them are gone. Normal. People move all the time. Nothing I could have done.
I can’t change the rent."
https://medium.com/s/story/if-san-francisco-is-so-great-why-is-everyone-i-love-leaving-d2b167471c35
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