'You start to feel stupid': Tech workers can't leave SF fast enough Nellie Bowles, New York Times Jan. 16, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail From left: Laura Thompson, Gillian Morris, the founder of the travel app Hitlist who recently fled San Francisco, and Wren Dougherty, who all share a home, in Ocean Park, San Juan, Puerto Rico, on Dec. 15, 2020. As a tech era draws to an end, more workers and companies are packing up. What comes next? (Gabriella N. Baez/The New York Times)Gabriella N. B�ez/NYT SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area struck a hard bargain with its tech workers. Rent was astronomical. Taxes were high. Your neighbors didn’t like you. If you lived in San Francisco, you might have commuted an hour south to your job at Apple or Google or Facebook. Or if your office was in the city, maybe it was in a neighborhood with too much street crime, open drug use and $5 coffees.