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Yelp office is in concord yet she lived in the city? With her wages, why did she move 30 miles away where rent is significantly higher. You could probably get a

by snug 10y ago

Yelp office is in concord yet she lived in the city? With her wages, why did she move 30 miles away where rent is significantly higher. You could probably get away with $500 rent in concord with a roommate situation. Edit: Whoops, read that wrong. She actually lives in Concord and worked in SF.

m00x 10y ago
She lived in Concord. Yelp's office is in SF.
oarsinsync 10y ago
> The only place she could find that cost less than the $1,466 she’d be making in a month at Yelp was 30 miles east of San Francisco, in Concord. You've got that the wrong way round, she was living in Concord, and without a roommate because... > Her only lead on a roommate had fallen through, and she wanted to take time to find someone who she “wasn’t afraid would murder me, because I don’t really know anyone.”
- seattle_spring 10y ago
  > she wanted to take time to find someone who she “wasn’t afraid would murder me, because I don’t really know anyone.” I'm sorry, but her insecurities are 100% her fault. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her because she moved to SF on her own? Almost everyone I know did that!
  - minsight 10y ago
    She has valid reasons for being insecure about murderers...
  - sickbeard 10y ago
    You should read the entire thing about what happened to her while she was 10 to understand it.
- autotune 10y ago
  Took me about a week to find some roommates through reddit.com/r/sfbayareahousing when I first moved out here, then about a day to find some new roommates and a decent place to live on craigslist outside of that. Before that I used airbnb.com to find a place and there are a good number that are under $1000 a month outside downtown SF. She could've done something similar.
  - timr 10y ago
    "Before that I used airbnb.com to find a place and there are a good number that are under $1000 a month outside downtown SF. She could've done something similar." OK...I just did. I found nothing less than $1500 a month, even expanding my search radius to include Marin, the entire east bay, and all of South San Francisco. The average nightly is $179. Of all the things in her post that you could choose be self-righteous about, her rent is the one that makes the least sense. Her budget was realistic. She wasn't living in luxury. People blow my mind. Stand up for something better than poverty, and you get attacked not just from the top, but from the bottom as well.
    - autotune 10y ago
      It's not about "standing up for something better than poverty," it's about having enough sense to not move to one of the expensive cities in the U.S. for an $8/hour job, especially since you can easily become a Lyft or Uber driver and not just make more than that but make enough to commute out here from a place like Concord. Plenty of places in this range in the Concord area: https://www.airbnb.com/s/Concord?checkin=05%2F01%2F2016&checkout=05%2F31%2F2016&price_max=1304&ss_id=ic5kei32&s_tag=Fy-a9TVK https://www.airbnb.com/s/Concord?checkin=05%2F01%2F2016&chec...
      - timr 10y ago
        Yeah, totally. How entitled is it to move to a city where there are jobs, and expect to be paid enough to live within an hour of your full-time job without having to work a second gig as a cab driver? Screw her. In case you hadn't noticed, there are only 13 listings below $1000 on that AirBnB page. Five of them are bunkbeds at "Casa Hacker". If we expand the search to $1500 a month, we get listings like "Very Comfy Couch for 1-2 People" (omfg) and "Bunk Bed in Shared Room" on page one. The average is $3477 a month. Again, I draw two conclusions: a non-AirBnB one-bedroom in Concord for $1500 looks like a pretty good deal, and the people who are criticizing this girl's living situation are totally ridiculous.
justizin 10y ago
Concord, for the record, is REALLY far from SF. A person who lives in Concord and works in SF would spend almost all of their life commuting and working.

by snug 10y ago

m00x 10y ago

She lived in Concord. Yelp's office is in SF.

oarsinsync 10y ago

> The only place she could find that cost less than the $1,466 she’d be making in a month at Yelp was 30 miles east of San Francisco, in Concord. You've got that the wrong way round, she was living in Concord, and without a roommate because... > Her only lead on a roommate had fallen through, and she wanted to take time to find someone who she “wasn’t afraid would murder me, because I don’t really know anyone.”

seattle_spring 10y ago
> she wanted to take time to find someone who she “wasn’t afraid would murder me, because I don’t really know anyone.” I'm sorry, but her insecurities are 100% her fault. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her because she moved to SF on her own? Almost everyone I know did that!
- minsight 10y ago
  She has valid reasons for being insecure about murderers...
- sickbeard 10y ago
  You should read the entire thing about what happened to her while she was 10 to understand it.
autotune 10y ago
Took me about a week to find some roommates through reddit.com/r/sfbayareahousing when I first moved out here, then about a day to find some new roommates and a decent place to live on craigslist outside of that. Before that I used airbnb.com to find a place and there are a good number that are under $1000 a month outside downtown SF. She could've done something similar.
- timr 10y ago
  "Before that I used airbnb.com to find a place and there are a good number that are under $1000 a month outside downtown SF. She could've done something similar." OK...I just did. I found nothing less than $1500 a month, even expanding my search radius to include Marin, the entire east bay, and all of South San Francisco. The average nightly is $179. Of all the things in her post that you could choose be self-righteous about, her rent is the one that makes the least sense. Her budget was realistic. She wasn't living in luxury. People blow my mind. Stand up for something better than poverty, and you get attacked not just from the top, but from the bottom as well.
  - autotune 10y ago
    It's not about "standing up for something better than poverty," it's about having enough sense to not move to one of the expensive cities in the U.S. for an $8/hour job, especially since you can easily become a Lyft or Uber driver and not just make more than that but make enough to commute out here from a place like Concord. Plenty of places in this range in the Concord area: https://www.airbnb.com/s/Concord?checkin=05%2F01%2F2016&checkout=05%2F31%2F2016&price_max=1304&ss_id=ic5kei32&s_tag=Fy-a9TVK https://www.airbnb.com/s/Concord?checkin=05%2F01%2F2016&chec...
    - timr 10y ago
      Yeah, totally. How entitled is it to move to a city where there are jobs, and expect to be paid enough to live within an hour of your full-time job without having to work a second gig as a cab driver? Screw her. In case you hadn't noticed, there are only 13 listings below $1000 on that AirBnB page. Five of them are bunkbeds at "Casa Hacker". If we expand the search to $1500 a month, we get listings like "Very Comfy Couch for 1-2 People" (omfg) and "Bunk Bed in Shared Room" on page one. The average is $3477 a month. Again, I draw two conclusions: a non-AirBnB one-bedroom in Concord for $1500 looks like a pretty good deal, and the people who are criticizing this girl's living situation are totally ridiculous.

justizin 10y ago

Concord, for the record, is REALLY far from SF. A person who lives in Concord and works in SF would spend almost all of their life commuting and working.