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None of my artist friends who were born in SF can afford to live there any more. My techie friends are starting to move out because it's getting less affordable
by egypturnash 8y ago
None of my artist friends who were born in SF can afford to live there any more. My techie friends are starting to move out because it's getting less affordable for even them, or because the only people left of their circles are other techies.
Seattle's going the same way, rapidly. I hope nobody who works for Amazon or Microsoft decides to follow me when I leave this town for the place I grew up, because tech money sure does not trickle down very far and I would like to be able to pay my freakin' rent without whimpering every time I do.
- tasubotadas 8y agoWell, that's how the cookie crumbles. If you can't afford the place where you currently live, you move somewhere else.
- egypturnash 8y agoI wonder if SF will get bad enough that it's simply not worth the commute for anyone who's not a techie to live there. No more fast-food workers. Nobody to clean the toilets. Nobody who isn't a software zillionaire in a perfect, shining Galt's Gulch on the ocean.
- tasubotadas 8y ago> No more fast-food workers. Nobody to clean the toilets. If anybody paid attention to how a market works, one would realise, that these workers would start getting SWdev-like salaries.