It seems to me that Daly City would be more sensible and/or comforting for the people that are being forced to relocate from locales such as Salt Lake City. That's something that hasn't really been brought up in this thread; maybe it was seen as a compromise for the people that are being forced to relocate. And maybe the board was opposed because they wanted to use the opportunity to cull the "wrong type" of employee from reddit, i.e., the type that prefers the suburb to the urb. Just some cynical speculation with absolutely no data behind it; just wanted to throw out the possibility that Daly City is probably more familiar to SLC folks than SF.