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I'm sure a large fraction of the ‘gentrifiers’ would actually rather not spend a couple hours every day on a bus — they themselves are simply priced out of home
by kps 13y ago
I'm sure a large fraction of the ‘gentrifiers’ would actually rather not spend a couple hours every day on a bus — they themselves are simply priced out of homes close to work by the entrenched SV residents who vote to prop up their own property values with extremely unbalanced zoning regulations, bringing in ego edifices holding tens of thousands of employees while excluding anywhere for them to live.
- kisil_reboot 13y ago"Priced out" is not strictly accurate - San Francisco is still more expensive than the peninsula. But it's only slightly more expensive, so the cost factor doesn't provide much incentive to skip the city. If I'm going to pay through the nose anyway, I might as well live somewhere I'll like.
- mwfunk 13y agoThis is absolutely not true. It's way more affordable for pretty much every single one of them to all live in the South Bay with a 10-20 minute commute. They live in SF because it's less "boring", as if boredom comes from where you live rather than one's own lack of imagination. I know tons and tons of people who do the SF/SV commute every day, but only one of them lives in the city for any other reason.