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there's always an untapped place somewhere. in the 80s people were saying this about someplace else probably.
by JacobSuperslav 6y ago
there's always an untapped place somewhere. in the 80s people were saying this about someplace else probably.
- warent 6y agoNew York city probably. That place has been huge and expensive for like 100 years now. The new untapped places to look at might be Austin TX and Boise ID
- echelon 6y agoAustin, definitely yes. Boise? No way. There's much more chatter about Miami.
- calvano915 6y agoBoise is booming but more focused toward retirees than young families. Miami and Austin seem to have a larger influx of all types.
- mxcrossb 6y agoIsn’t Miami literally sinking into the ocean (unlike Silicon Valley which is figuratively gone Atlantis) ?
- uS436aRs6BbC30c 6y agoMiami is sinking into the ocean, and I say this as someone who lives in a part of Florida that is sinking into the ocean at a much slower rate. On the other hand, isn’t California sliding into the ocean?
- WalterBright 6y agoI remember a lot of griping in the 70s about the boom in housing prices in Hawaii and California.
- linguae 6y agoI'm curious about the untapped potential of other parts of California. Now that the pandemic has made remote work a necessity, I'm wondering if regions of California outside Silicon Valley will benefit from remote tech workers having more options in terms of residences. For example, Sacramento is a very popular destination for ex-Bay Area residents, and it appears to be a good location for people working remotely for Silicon Valley companies who (post-pandemic) may need to make occasional trips to the office. Sacramento is still affordable, though it's becoming more expensive each year. Other areas that are intriguing to me include San Luis Obispo County and some of Southern California's exurbs like the Antelope Valley area and Lake Elsinore, where it's possible to buy a nice single-family house in a safe neighborhood for less than $500,000. California gets a bad rap in some circles due to its high cost of living and its taxes, but not everywhere in California has the Bay Area's high housing costs. There are many other areas of the state where people can still reasonably make a day trip to the Bay Area to enjoy its amenities while living in a place that is affordable on an average engineer's salary.
- beamatronic 6y agoThere are so many nice little towns in northern California. Any of them would be a fine place to live.
- gnicholas 6y agoI grew up in Sacramento and now live near Palo Alto. Sacramento has great public schools. I went to a public IB high school, whose science teams regularly placed in the top 3 in the US for Science Bowl/ Science Olympiad. In many parts of CA, the best schools are private (LA), or you have to pay millions of dollars for a house in the good districts (Palo Alto). In Sacramento, they have what is called 'open enrollment', which allows people to send their kids to school outside of their district, if there is a program there that isn't available locally. I had many classmates from across town, and one who lived halfway to Tahoe. I personally think that areas like Half Moon Bay and Scott's Valley will benefit from remote work. It's close enough to go into SV when needed, but farther than many people would have wanted to commute daily. And they're beautiful, with good weather. SLO will probably benefit also, and I imagine that schools will change in these areas, to become more like SV/LA. That's probably good for SF/LA families, though locals might not like the changes.