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Housing shortage means low-paid workers commute in from (usually) the East Bay, so the lack of late-night transit plus safety concerns make it not worth it for
by diebeforei485 4y ago
Housing shortage means low-paid workers commute in from (usually) the East Bay, so the lack of late-night transit plus safety concerns make it not worth it for most minimum wage workers to work late.
Higher paid jobs like healthcare workers, no problem.
- alephnerd 4y agoI dislike how transplants tend to broadly paint the East Bay. It isn't a cheap region either. Most blue collar labor types living in the East Bay are in the Alameda County flatlands (parts of Newark, parts of Fremont, inner city Oakland, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Albany) or North Contra Costa County (Pittsburg, Antioch, Richmond). But most of the unskillled labor underclass you see in the Bay Area cities tend to drive in/Bart in/ACE in from San Joaquin Country, Sonoma County, or Monterey County.
- diebeforei485 4y agoIt's definitely cheap in comparison to San Francisco. It's more expensive than most of the country, sure. And yes some parts of the East Bay are expensive, especially the neighborhoods on the hills or Piedmont/Claremont and further inland like Walnut Creek or Orinda etc. But let's be real, most of the East Bay is one big suburban wasteland. There are a lot of folks living in East Oakland (with roommates, often) who work in SF restaurants.
- lotsofpulp 4y ago> Higher paid jobs like healthcare workers, no problem. There most definitely has been a decline in quality of healthcare due to decline in quantity and quality of healthcare workers relative to patients in the recent past. Even though a job might be higher paid, it does not imply the pay to quality of life at work is sufficiently high to incentivize the desirable amount of labor sellers to pursue it.