In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot

trbdavies (979982) writes 'Only in San Francisco' used to refer to issues like whether public nudity should be restricted to certain hours of the day. Now I hear it most often in connection with the interplay between the city and tech companies. SF Weekly reports on one such development: 'Anyone who's visited San Francisco for 35 minutes knows that easy parking is a rare find. Enter Paolo Dobrowolny, an Italian tech bro who decided San Francisco was the perfect spot to test out his new experiment. Here's how it works: You find a parking spot, revel a little, let Monkey Parking know where you're located, and watch the bidding begin. Finally, give your spot to the wealthiest victim willing to pay the highest price for your spot. Drive away that much richer.'" Update: 05/08 15:52 GMT by T : I suspect that Dobrowolny's a tech pro, rather than bro, or at least that's what I suspect the Weekly meant to say.

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I don't understand big cities - off topic

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I've been to NYC and SF, I really don't understand why you would want to live in such horrible places. They are ridiculously over-crowded, and such over priced, and beacons of inefficiency and how do fuck over nature. You have to truck in everything and truck out everything, I guess you could argue that you're only screwing up one small area of land, but the air and water pollution covers massive areas. Hell, look at how screwed California is in the water department.

Why would you want to live somewhere that you can't even find a parking spot (assuming you drive a car).

I realize that geeks unable to survive in nature like living in 'safe' places like cities, and as such I'll get a bunch of replies ranting about how awesome they are and probably several people claiming they are bastions of efficiency ... but ignoring those false hoods, someone please explain to me why you'd want to live in such a massive city?