> I guess Google could build apartments too but that's not ideal, I don't want to live at work. In the industrial revolution, it wasn't uncommon for major ind

> I guess Google could build apartments too but that's not ideal, I don't want to live at work. In the industrial revolution, it wasn't uncommon for major industrialists to build "model villages" [1] to house workers. The best examples include Bournville (Cadbury's chocolate), Saltaire (wool) and Port Sunlight (Lever Bros soap etc). They were attractive places to live, compared with Victorian slums. You got a healthier, happier workforce living within walking distance of their jobs. Sir Titus Salt's Saltaire is now a World Heritage Site. There's no reason why Google couldn't do the same, at least for a proportion of its workers. It looks as those Facebook will.... [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_village