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How do you force people to live near their jobs? San Francisco rents are higher than rents in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or Cupertino, but younger workers at Ap
by scharfstevenm 10y ago
How do you force people to live near their jobs?
San Francisco rents are higher than rents in Mountain View, Sunnyvale, or Cupertino, but younger workers at Apple, Google, Yahoo, etc., still choose to live in San Francisco because these suburban towns are so fricking' boring. Try to go to a restaurant after 9 p.m. in Cupertino.
The theory that people want to live adjacent to where they work is bogus. They want a way to get to work without driving or massive congestion. In this area, the private transportation networks set up by companies solve this for a lot of workers. And the same sorts of transportation systems exist in other countries. I've seen them in Taiwan and Korea as well.