living in SF

San Francisco Just Too Damn Nice

Lowen Baumgarten

May 9, 2012

When I first read this, I hated the guy:

Young Startup Founder Deems San Francisco "Too Nice"
Josh Miller, a young entrepreneur who left Princeton last year and headed West, is already bailing on San Francisco. His reasons? The city "is just too nice" for a budding young tech company.

Writing on Pando Daily, Miller explains why he's packing up his 6-month-old company and heading back East to our old arch-nemesis New York: "San Francisco is just too nice. The nature is too accessible, the architecture is too Victorian, and the weather is too perfect"

But given the high-70s weather lately, and how I utterly failed to buckle down and meet my deadlines until the sun went down yesterday, maybe he's right.

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