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Almost as mythical as the Golden Gate<\/strong>The Bay Bridge is very popular with those who have chosen to settle near Oakland, spurred on by the property boom. 4<\/span><\/p>\n

Even today, the association is immediate: San Francisco is the city of flower power, tolerance and Harvey Milk. But even if there's still a touch of madness in the air, it's all over. Because in 2015, it's the young wolves in sweatshirts and Bermuda shorts who have invested millions of dollars in the Victorian houses backing onto the hill. Since the early 2000s, the effervescence of new technologies has changed the social profile of the city. From 776,000 inhabitants within the city walls in 2000, San Francisco has grown to almost 850,000 today. The high-tech sector is in constant demand for new brains. It is estimated that 45,700 executive jobs were created in the region in 2014 and almost 33,500 in 2015, with salaries continuing to rise. As a result, under pressure from ever-rising rents, San Francisco's middle classes have fled to Oakland, to the east of the bay, a significantly cheaper suburb linked to the city by the Bart (Bay Area Rapid Transit).<\/p>\n

San Francisco has changed a lot in the last ten years. From hippies to hipsters, from marijuana to new technologies, there's a common thread that goes back long before the rise of Silicon Valley or the famous 1967 summer of love: the gold rush. It was in the 1850s that a small town sprang up on the shores of the Pacific, spurred on by prospectors who were afraid of nothing, especially not risk. That's how Golden Gate City became a financial centre with an innovative spirit.<\/p>\n

This spirit still marks her. But the world is changing, and so is its conception of society. That's why, in the mid-twentieth century, this impetuousness no longer consisted of rolling up one's sleeves to shake one's sieve, but of defending freedoms, all individual freedoms. This is undoubtedly one of the reasons why so many homeless people roam the streets of the city centre today. Tolerance here is almost limitless, and if you look closely, there are very few passers-by who don't offer a coin or a word of kindness to those who remain on the sidelines of the city's growing wealth.<\/p>\n\r\n