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Can a Public School Teacher Live in San Francisco?
- zer00eyz 11y agoWe underpay the crap out of teachers in the US, this would be dismal article if the title said NYC as well. That having been said, SF did it to itself. In an attempt to preserve the things that folks thought made up SF culture, they stopped building housing. They have pushed out artists, immigrants and the working class, with a set of backwards housing policies that benefit only those who already own.
- melling 11y agoAccording to Wikipedia, San Francisco has less than 1,000,000 people. They must be doing something wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco
- pm24601 11y agoYou do realize just how tiny SF really is, don't you? It is only ~49 square miles. Take out land that is parks, schools, public services, roads, parking lots, retail, offices, not suitable for building, etc. - doesn't leave lots of land available for housing.
- gjolund 11y agoI think it is really sad that someone like me, with just on the job training and no degree, can pull in three times a teachers salary because I know some javascript. My job isn't hard, it is technical. Anyone willing to invest the time to learn the technicalities can do it. Working a 9-5 for poverty wages, while trying to give a shit about someone else's kids and their education, that is hard. Meanwhile if I want to go teach my skills and pass on my knowledge I need to go back to school, get a bachelors, and then get a masters, and then learn to live on 1/3 of the income. I predict SF of the future will be filled with trash, crumbling roads, and gangs of uneducated children because everyone is building apps to help collect trash, crowdfund roads, and navigate around gangs of uneducated children.