The Invasion of Lake Tahoe
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So Bella brings me the post and I'm like, oh no, this won't be good. I mean, it's a vet's bill. |
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| 0:28.4 | Contitions and exclations apply. |
| 0:34.8 | For years, there was this symbol of how San Francisco was changing, adapting to the tech industry |
| 0:42.0 | and its army of workers. The Google bus. |
| 0:45.3 | Google's buses were shiny white with double-decker seating. |
| 0:53.3 | Yeah, with like, you know, kind of darkened windows. You couldn't really see in. |
| 0:58.4 | Rachel Levin lives in San Francisco. |
| 1:01.3 | And they pick up in different neighborhoods around the cities that people could live in the city |
| 1:05.1 | where they wanted to as opposed to, you know, down in Mountain View and Sunnyvale, |
| 1:08.0 | which was suburban and not much going on other than the tech campuses. |
| 1:11.6 | Rachel was doing the same commute as all these tech workers. |
| 1:16.3 | Unlike a lot of San Francisco residents, she eyed these buses with just a bit of jealousy. |
| 1:23.5 | And I had to drive myself every day and it took an hour and a half and it was the worst. |
| 1:28.7 | And I would see the Google bus just leave my neighborhood and I'm like, can I get on that? |
| 1:32.3 | I'm like, can I get on that bus? |
| 1:33.9 | It wasn't just the bus that made people roll their eyes. |
| 1:37.6 | The influx of techies drove up rent in the city. |
| 1:41.4 | Some people worried these folks were changing the character of the place. |
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