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Glad you brought that up. The bay area's unique geography (and/or inadequate regional mass transit to match it) make this a much greater problem here. There wa
by abalone 8y ago
Glad you brought that up. The bay area's unique geography (and/or inadequate regional mass transit to match it) make this a much greater problem here.
There was a really great map that I'm trying to find again, comparing how far you could travel from an affordable market-rate unit on mass transit in an hour in different metros. In NYC you could reach most of Manhattan from affordable neighborhoods in Brooklyn or Harlem. In SFBA, the vast majority of SF was unreachable. Just small areas around the BART stops basically.
This is a huge problem for the service industry, for example. It is getting very hard to hire restaurant and retail staff in SF without jacking up prices so high that the business fails. Not a lot of people want to commute 3 hours a day to a minimum wage job.
- ggg9990 8y agoBART is pretty good... you can get from a cheap gang infested area of Richmond to downtown SF in an hour. It’s pretty expensive though, an hours pay for the round trip.
- emodendroket 8y agoI heard a pretty memorable discussion on the radio about people walking all the way from Queens and Brooklyn to their jobs at the Manhattan McDonald's because their pay was too low to afford the subway fare.