Gray Tribe

Moving from downtown SF to a suburb of SF does not count as "leaving San Francisco".

You're still using the same airport. You're still able to have in-person meetings with the same people. Travel time from SF downtown to your new place is significantly less than between two opposite ends of Beijing or Seoul.

I did this last year and couldn't agree more. I meet more people in SF now than when I was living in the city.

I'm in San Mateo now which has a very central location, 10min from airport and ~30min away from pretty much everywhere in the bay area. So I also +easily meet people in Palo Alto, Oakland, and NYC now :)