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We have a fundamental problem in Silicon Valley: there are not enough places for people to live in. Transportation is your problem, along with NIMBY regulation

We have a fundamental problem in Silicon Valley: there are not enough places for people to live in. Transportation is your problem, along with NIMBY regulations (fought-for by limousine liberal hypocrites) that prevent proper growth. Silicon Valley is not Manhattan, with its daytime population density of 170k per square mile. It should not be expensive and congested. It's just badly planned, with a lot of regulatory corruption keeping housing scarcer than it should be.

gdubs 13y ago
The risk is turning Silicon Valley into Los Angeles.
- slashCJ 13y ago
  Los Angeles is actually a much better place to live now for people in tech than the bay area. All the young people want to live in overpriced SF and the ones with families want to live in the south bay. In LA the thriving tech community is all in west Los Angeles, where Venice is the hip San Francisco (but waaay cheaper) and Santa Monica / West LA has great homes (also much cheaper than say Palo Alto [if you exclude beach front]). And these 2 neighborhoods are 10-15 minute commute, very different than the hour commute between most of the south bay and SF.
  - gdubs 13y ago
    I've lived in LA for ten years. Commuting anywhere can be a nightmare at any random hour of the day. Housing prices are amazing in comparison though -- a third as expensive as the Bay Area, I'd say (rental). They are building some new rail lines, but it's going to be a while... Great food too!
- Apocryphon 13y ago
  As it is, South Bay is already a miniature LA in terms of sprawl and commuting, as well as concrete (lack of) architecture and strip malls.
xivzgrev 13y ago
No joke on poor transportation. My g/f lives in outer Richmond and takes me over 50+ min for a bus to soma. Might as well live in Oakland... Let's say you have a bus line with 40 stops. I wonder what it'd look like if you ran two lines with 20 stops each: you run same num of busses on same route, each bus just skips every other stop, alternating with the next bus. Wait times at any given stop don't dramatically decrease in absolute sense. And if each stop takes 30 seconds, could shave 10 min off route.

gdubs 13y ago

The risk is turning Silicon Valley into Los Angeles.

slashCJ 13y ago
Los Angeles is actually a much better place to live now for people in tech than the bay area. All the young people want to live in overpriced SF and the ones with families want to live in the south bay. In LA the thriving tech community is all in west Los Angeles, where Venice is the hip San Francisco (but waaay cheaper) and Santa Monica / West LA has great homes (also much cheaper than say Palo Alto [if you exclude beach front]). And these 2 neighborhoods are 10-15 minute commute, very different than the hour commute between most of the south bay and SF.
- gdubs 13y ago
  I've lived in LA for ten years. Commuting anywhere can be a nightmare at any random hour of the day. Housing prices are amazing in comparison though -- a third as expensive as the Bay Area, I'd say (rental). They are building some new rail lines, but it's going to be a while... Great food too!
Apocryphon 13y ago
As it is, South Bay is already a miniature LA in terms of sprawl and commuting, as well as concrete (lack of) architecture and strip malls.

xivzgrev 13y ago

No joke on poor transportation. My g/f lives in outer Richmond and takes me over 50+ min for a bus to soma. Might as well live in Oakland... Let's say you have a bus line with 40 stops. I wonder what it'd look like if you ran two lines with 20 stops each: you run same num of busses on same route, each bus just skips every other stop, alternating with the next bus. Wait times at any given stop don't dramatically decrease in absolute sense. And if each stop takes 30 seconds, could shave 10 min off route.