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If you were thinking about setting up shop in the tech capital of the world — whether it’s for your first office or your fourteenth — it’d be wise to take a moment and ask one crucial question: Is it really worth it?

Sure, you’d be at the epicenter of innovation, surrounded by brilliant minds, mega-corporations and venture capital heavyweights begging to get involved, but you’d also be facing some of the highest living and operating costs in America. And nothing bogs-down a business like lots of overhead.

San Francisco and San Jose ranked Nos. 3 and 4, respectively, on Kiplinger’s list of most expensive cities in the U.S. And according to the San Francisco Business Times, the average cost of commercial real estate in the Golden Gate City is at an all-time high Read more…

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