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I dont understand whats the outrage is about. Bay Area / San Francisco housing market is tough because that area is special. Its special because its home to wor
by elvirs 9y ago
I dont understand whats the outrage is about.
Bay Area / San Francisco housing market is tough because that area is special. Its special because its home to world's most innovative companies that pays its staff world's highest salaries. So it basically became an exclusive neighborhood for the wealthiest and most talented (demanded) people. And it stay special because those who are not in demand cant afford to live there. You think it will be better if housing became cheaper and all those who could not afford to live there now would be able to move there and turn the place into a shit show like Queens and Brooklyn have become? Overcrowded houses with too many cars on the street, all the double parking and chaos not to mention filth on the streets and the noise? You cant afford it for a reason, if you were needed there Google would offer you a salary high enough for you to be able to afford it. Everybody is basically in outrage that they cant get into and live in this exclusive, high class neighborhood but if everybody could afford to live there it would not be exclusive and high class anymore and those things that attracted you there back then would not be in place any more and the area would become into a place that you run away from in the first place.
- RubenSandwich 9y agoYou must not of visited Queens or Brooklyn since the late 80s because they are now very vibrate and livable communities.
- elvirs 9y agoI live in New York and unfortunately have to be in Queens and Brooklyn regularly. if circling the neighboring blocks for 20 minutes every night to find a parking spot is what you call a livable residential community then ok.
- OpenDrapery 9y agoInteresting that you think SF is special because Google is there. What made it special before Google existed? What made it special before computers existed? It's geography, climate, and culture make it special. Tech companies don't get to show up and stake an ownership claim on this stuff. If the hippies told the hipsters "we were here first!", they wouldn't be entirely wrong.
- elvirs 9y agotech companies are not the only thing making SF special but they are the main reason behind raise in housing cost of recent decades and turning the area into even more exclusive than they were before.