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Originally Posted by dimondpark
I get what youre saying, but as far as wealth emanating from a job center to it's surroundings, SF is #1 on the West Coast at this time, that stat caught me off guard btw.
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Right, the Bay Area economy is amazingly prosperous and fast-growing, but it's inaccurate to then ascribe all that wealth to SF itself.
The Bay Area might have the economy of Paris at this point, but that doesn't mean that SF = Paris; it's more like the Ruhr or Randstad regions. No one says Amsterdam is a Paris equivalent because the Randstad might have a comparable economy, even though Amsterdam is clearly the most important city in the Randstad, as with SF in the Bay Area.
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Originally Posted by dimondpark
4 Bay Area counties are considered major job centers for all of NorCal and SF, at 46 sq miles, still has the biggest outflow of earnings, even topping Santa Clara. Whodathunkit?
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It's impressive, but I don't think this is particularly shocking. Santa Clara has huge bedroom communities, like pretty much the entire city of SJ. Only a small part of Santa Clara is the traditional Silicon Valley. And the "core' SV straddles San Mateo County.
Only Washington DC is similar to SF in that you have a geographically small, healthy city-county proper, and DC doesn't appear much different (though that is impressive for SF, because I believe downtown DC has much higher job counts).