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The Invasion of Lake Tahoe

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tech workers from the Bay Area happily left their expensive apartments for Lake Tahoe during the pandemic, hoping to get some fresh air and a change of scenery. Towns around the lake soon became "Zoom-towns" -- areas where remote workers moved in and never left, raising prices and driving out longtime residents. Now, locals are fighting back. Guest: Rachel Levin, San Francisco-based journalist. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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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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