Why do restaurants in San Francisco close before 10pm?
One reason:
Workers can’t afford to live here, so they commute in from neighboring cities.
But b/c BART stops at midnight, workers need to leave early to get home.
As is often the case in SF, it comes back to housing.
SF actually does have its own ‘dimes square’ scene— software engineers in SoMa cocktail bars discussing “philosophy” (misunderstood rationalism), “politics” (vaporizing homeless people), and “culture” (chainsmokers concert)