Bay Area tech icon Keith Rabois announced he’s leaving San Francisco permanently — and he is criticizing the city on his way out.

Rabois, an early executive at PayPal, Square, LinkedIn and more, told Fortune he is “moving imminently” because he’s finding it “impossible to stay” in San Francisco. After living in the Bay Area for 20 years, he said he plans on moving to Florida.

“I think San Francisco is just so massively improperly run and managed that it’s impossible to stay here,” Rabois told Fortune. He told the publication other friends in his peer group have done the same, and a look at his Twitter account shows multiple tweets about the so-called San Francisco exodus.

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— Keith Rabois (@rabois) November 19, 2020

Rabois is a legend in Silicon Valley as an investor and a tech exec. He rose to prominence as part of the PayPal Mafia, a group of early PayPal employees including Peter Thiel and Elon Musk, who have since become big names in the industry.

His Glen Park residence was the subject of local headlines in 2017 when he submitted a proposed renovation to the city. Rabois bought two properties on Everson Street with plans to add a gym, basketball court and sauna to one. Neighbors were worried he was creating a tech compound a la Mark Zuckerberg and went so far as to create a website to protest his plans.

Rabois is hardly the only person to make the move from San Francisco during the coronavirus pandemic. In August, real estate site Zillow released its 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report, which showed inventory in San Francisco rose 96% year-over-year.

“It may be tempting to credit the city of San Francisco’s inventory boom to the advent of remote work that came with the pandemic, but one only has to look at to San Jose to question that narrative,” Zillow economist Josh Clark told SFGATE in August . “The San Jose metro, which like the city of SF is dominated by tech workers, has not seen a similar rise. Two things that could drive the difference are San Francisco’s density and its smaller share of family households.”

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