pjlegato

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   by pjlegato 14y ago

   San Francisco is the only major city in the US where you a) don't need a car and b) there's no snow. Apparently, lots of people highly value these (and other) factors, enough so that it cannot be as cheap as Philadelphia or Boston. It's not
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   by pjlegato 14y ago

   The problem with this theory is that in the hypothetical midwestern city you describe, there is no incentive for anyone to pay Silicon Valley salaries. Everyone can live on less money, so that sets the baseline. Premiums or discounts are ap
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   by pjlegato 14y ago

   If "more bourgeois" means that I won't get stared down by junior gangbanger wannabe thugs every other block, then I can live with that tradeoff.
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   by pjlegato 14y ago

   Even the Hispanics in the Mission are a relatively recent influx - the Mission was traditionally an Irish and Italian neighborhood.
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   by pjlegato 14y ago

   Thing is, factual data itself, such as "Someone is offering to the public to sell X for $Y," is not subject to copyright. Copyright-eligible works must include some element of creativity, however small. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist