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>, and they probably can't afford a house. I moved to the bay area recently, and I'm an engineer. I was kind of wondering how people actually live out here. I
by alnayyir 16y ago
>, and they probably can't afford a house.
I moved to the bay area recently, and I'm an engineer. I was kind of wondering how people actually live out here. I came here from New York, so I get how people can rent for their whole lives, but I had thought that there'd be more reasonable home ownership in the bay area.
Not so. :\
- tesseract 16y agoI'm a recent (last few months) migrant to the bay area. I have to say, for a city that hates capitalists, San Francisco sure is expensive. (hmm, maybe there's some causation there?)
- alnayyir 16y agoStow the politics, this is NOT the place
- stellar678 16y agoHates capitalists? This city was built on gold and the resulting necessary banking infrastructure. It's the financial center of the west coast!
- tesseract 16y agoI'm thinking of the rent control, the seemingly extreme (compared to anywhere else I've experienced) adversity toward any kind of building or redevelopment, the ongoing Twitter dustup, and so forth.
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