Housing

San Francisco's High-Tech Cost Advantage

San Francisco stacks up well these days compared with Silicon Valley.
Reuters

With the exception of Manhattan, San Francisco may well be America's most expensive city. But when it comes to high-tech industry, the City by the Bay now actually has a cost advantage over nearby Silicon Valley.

Take the recent news that social media start-up Pinterest is hoping to move to San Francisco. As Om Malick writes at GigaOM: