Dear SF Natives

Dearest Natives of SF,

It would be great if y'all could please stop whining.  You can't rationally think that you should be grandfathered in so you can live out your days in a city just because you were fortunate enough to have been raised here. 

Your city is amazing and has inspired health, organics, human rights and people that want to make a difference for the better.  It draws people that want to be near nature and choose diversity and culture.  Protests, peace,  environmental, active lifestyles and other movements that SF has acted as the epicenter for have changed our nation...and have made your city a pilgrimage, a beacon and goal that like minded people have worked towards...and work everyday to stay or hope to return to. 
You don't just get to live here, you work to live here...and because of those techies if the going gets tough you have more options so that you can: 
-sell things on craigslist 
-walk the dogs they have at home while they commute 40 miles each way 
-sell books, cds, dvds and other things to amazon -get crowdfunding for your idea from strangers -go on task rabbit and make yourself useful 
-start a blog -get deals on stuff on groupon 
-share your videos and pictures with strangers 
-drive your car like you have a medallion shaped like a mustache 
-rent your apartment out for a weekend 


Technology is shaping the world and I am happy the people that are responsible for it live in a city I love.  I like that organic and sustainability is surrounding them.   I like knowing that the people that got rich fast got there for the most part with an idea.  Many built there fortunes before out of college.  They are fresh rich and never built an image through tabloids or being an heir.  This Nouveau riche does not watch which fork the person on their left is using for the course, they instead are focused on the topic of conversation.  As many of my native San Francisco friends say to transplants that complain: "if you dont like it, leave."--well right back at ya...I worked hard to get here and I like that there are companies that look for ways to make their employees happy to go to work. 

These companies have come up with the idea of providing perks to their employees that are insanely different than ever before and I am sure that in the beginning their finance teams that learned corporate structured lessons questioned why they would provide comfort over profit, but it has worked.

I may have to leave San Francisco in the future and it may not be on my terms, but I am happy to have called the Bay Area home and will bow out when I no longer want to give 50% of my paycheck to rent.

In closing, be constructive in your criticism...don't protest, offer a solution...I am pretty sure the company that tries to make their workers happy is open to reasonable requests....that could be in the millions...make them complete the BART circling the bay?
...just don't change the city you love into a town of complainers that think they deserve something based on childhood memories.