From Bubble to Bubble
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What I learned moving from San Francisco to the most conservative city in America: Provo, Utah.
Feb 7, 2018 by Sahil Lavingia A year ago, I lived in San Francisco. I spent over $2,000 a month for one bedroom in a two-bedroom apartment in the Mission District. Outside of working on my startup, I devoured books on my Kindle and brooded with my fellow liberals about Trump and the GOP on Twitter. Most everyone I knew was agnostic. I had my whole life planned out. Decades of startups, at least one of which would hit it big. A retirement full of vapid, but pithy tweets. Today, I live in Provo, the most conservative (and religious) city over 100,000 people in America. I live in a…
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