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I'm at San Francisco’s hottest new tourist attraction ($1.6M bathroom)
- onos 4y agoFor scale, that’s the going price for a two bedroom condo in downtown sf. I was more alarmed by the 3M sticker price reported for the outdoor education center at the Lawrence hall of sciences, across the bay. It consists of some nice landscaping, a handful of picnic benches, and some covered awnings. I’d have expected this to cost $100k-200k… with the upper range cause we are in the Bay Area. 3M!?!? https://www.dailycal.org/2022/06/20/lawrence-hall-of-science-introduces-outdoor-nature-lab https://www.dailycal.org/2022/06/20/lawrence-hall-of-science...
- iancmceachern 4y agoA lunch at Chipotle in SF costs $15, a beer cam be $20 with tip, that's about 10-20x the real cost anywhere else. So this tracks, lol.
- duxup 4y agoChipotle burrito is $9 to $12.50 (depending on the meat you pick) in suburban Minnesota. $15 doesn’t seem… entirely absurd.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThey were less than $5 before I moved to California, so perhaps time has confounded my perception here.
- eklitzke 4y agoWhere in San Francisco does a beer cost $20 with tip?
- tedunangst 4y agoI mean, you can find a $20 beer in just about any city with an import specialty bar.
- iancmceachern 4y agoThe ballpark, this open air park/permanent food truck meet up that also sells beer called Spark Social, other places. You can find places that sell beers for $6-10, not all places are this expensive, but many are.
- tedunangst 4y agoOne heck of a pour if you're tipping $14 on a $6 beer.
- iancmceachern 4y agoWeird take, I had said that one can find a place that sells $15 beers, not that all beers are $15.
- duxup 4y agoLooks pretty nice.
- refurb 4y agoWhen I first heard about this i was like “oh, $1.7M? Kinda high for a small building with men/women bathrooms, but the sinks and toilets aren’t cheap so not too bad” I was picturing a small bathroom with a couple urinals, and toilets and a row of sinks on each side. Then I saw it was a single bathroom - one room with one sink and toilet. Jeeze
- devoutsalsa 4y ago<sarcasm> At that rate, low income housing should only be about $16 million per unit. Not bad! </sarcasm>
- augustuspolius 4y agoApparently CA governor Newsom threatened to pull money from SF because of how much unwanted attention the $1.7M restroom attracted. It sounds absurd, but an expensive public restroom in SF could compromise his White House aspirations.
- Rebelgecko 4y agoExtra hilarious in light of the news that this isn't even the first toilet in SF that cost more than $1.5m
- anthony100 4y agoYou think for $1.6M, they should at least have included a bidet.
- rdtwo 4y agoIs it self cleaning, hobo proof and powered 24/7 by clean renewable energy. Oh leed platinum too in hope
- augustuspolius 4y agoSelf cleaning? That would be $10M. This is just your basic restroom with a broken Dyson Airblade hand dryer for $900.
- capableweb 4y agoThe icon on the door indicates it's also for people in wheelchairs, but the curb seems a bit high to "jump" over if you're in one. Surely there is a ramp on the left side outside the photo or did they really mess up this badly?
- adave 4y agoI mean how else would they legally give out money to their cronies?
- IshKebab 4y agoOn the proposed $1.7m one there's a line item for $30k to pay a consultant to do budget estimation. Absolutely insane!