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Houses in Atherton are already the size of apartment buildings. You could house 10-20 units in them without any change to the exterior. Change will happen, peo
by gibolt 4y ago
Houses in Atherton are already the size of apartment buildings. You could house 10-20 units in them without any change to the exterior.
Change will happen, people would gladly pay a normal Bay Area house cost to get 1/10 of an Atherton house and live in that school district
- TulliusCicero 4y agoYeah, that'd be great. School districts/boundaries being so unequal is at least partially the result of zoning policy that makes it harder for people of less financial means to move into affluent areas. I saw a counterexample living in Munich, just in the sense that the differences between neighborhoods in apparent wealth were much less stark than in the US. Almost everywhere looked vaguely middling, very few places looked obviously rich or poor. And so it's no surprise that the differences between public schools was lesser too.
- amadeuspagel 4y agoSchools are funded by the state government in germany, not by districts. The concept of a school district doesn't exist.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoI'm talking about the area boundaries that determine where people go to school. Many terrible school districts or schools in the US actually have plenty of money (the DC school district is a famous example).
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- jahewson 4y agoThey’re going to be some crazy expensive apartments.
- TulliusCicero 4y agoInitially, that's true. Though not as expensive as owning a house there, obviously.
- gibolt 4y agoSure but still far less than the barrier to entry of a house there now.