I agree somewhat with your conclusion but I question your premise.
From an outsider perspective San Francisco strikes me as a culture that is, and has been for decades, a creation of the affluent class.
Hippies and tech founders alike have all talked a good game about an equal society, but both groups are primarily seeded from the children of the rich and well educated and have worked to preserve the status quo.
New York City, for all its superficial associations with finance and Wall Street culture, has always seemed to be a much more genuinely diverse and empathetic place in actual day to day policy and practice.
From an outsider perspective San Francisco strikes me as a culture that is, and has been for decades, a creation of the affluent class.
Hippies and tech founders alike have all talked a good game about an equal society, but both groups are primarily seeded from the children of the rich and well educated and have worked to preserve the status quo.
New York City, for all its superficial associations with finance and Wall Street culture, has always seemed to be a much more genuinely diverse and empathetic place in actual day to day policy and practice.