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Just to follow up on a deleted comment that thought I was complaining, I guess my point is that decent housing (both renting and owning) has become unaffordable
by hnhousingthrow 5y ago
Just to follow up on a deleted comment that thought I was complaining, I guess my point is that decent housing (both renting and owning) has become unaffordable for most people. High-income earners like myself will be okay, if okay means spending half of my salary on rent where I literally step over homeless people as part of an hourlong commute. My greater fear is what happens to the "essential workers", the heroes making $15/hr? What happens when the firefighters, EMTs, teachers, grocery store workers etc have been priced out of the state?
- swiley 5y agoWe're about to find out aren't we? I'm glad to not be part of that experiment.
- sjg007 5y agoFirefighters make 100k, some teachers do too. Depends where you live. More over you need someone to buy your 800k house you spent 600k on. It’ll be a remote worker who buys it if the local economy can’t support that so…… hopefully remote work is here to stay.
- BTCOG 5y agoThe average salary of a firefighter in the United States is $52k. Teachers average $15/hour. No clue where you're getting these outrageous figures other than if you're a Californian and think anything about California is "normal" in the sense of the rest of the United States. If 30+ states pay firefighters $50k, and teachers make $15/hr in 40 states... actually makes California look like what it is, a massive bubble.