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It's kind of delightful watching NYC and SF in the gif inflate like gigantic pustules, cysts of real estate.
by angersock 11y ago
It's kind of delightful watching NYC and SF in the gif inflate like gigantic pustules, cysts of real estate.
- npkarnik 11y agoThis imagery makes me cringe while being spot on.
- perfTerm 11y agoTotally agree. It's easy to understand the implications but as a New Yorker it's hard not to be proud of your city in some ways. The UES being worth more than six states, it just boggles the mind to try to do the comparisons in your head.
- tsiki 11y agoI'm the most surprised how LA blows up, I thought it was quite a bit cheaper there than in SF/NY.
- refurb 11y agoLA county has almost 10M people living in it. SF has only 800K. If housing prices were equal, you'd expect LA to be 10 times the size (assuming an equal number of people per dwelling).
- bagacrap 11y agoYes, it's difficult to make a fair comparison across counties of such vastly different areas and populations. LA county includes far-off places like Palmdale which bring the average housing price way down. If you only looked at more central neighborhoods like Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, etc. you'd see distortion more akin to SF.
- pcrh 11y agoPerhaps because it's HN, the discussion is focused on SF and NY. But it's SoCal and Florida that surprised me.