One time the car (that I lived in) broke down and the tow truck driver offered to let me stay at his house. We stay in touch to this day. He works at Tesla now.https://www.quora.com/Would-becoming-homeless-be-a-good-strategy-to-cut-costs-1/answer/Austen-Allred …
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What is outlawed? Expensive rent?
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Sleeping in a car or RV is outlawed in every city in Silicon Valley so far as I can find. That wasn't the case back then.
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I wonder how that works out for the homeless.
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It doesn't
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I lived behind a homemade screen in my kitchen so I could rent out both of the bedrooms in my apartment.
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You could probably *make* good money that way
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Some months I was almost rent-free! I had a young kid who was also not super rich in one of the rooms & Airbnb’d the other one. When we were able to keep the Airbnb full, I also cut my roommate’s rent. Had a lot of international students & families of kids @ Berkeley, cool people
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Brah you need to drive el camino in palo alto sometime RVs lining the streets, plenty of people still living in RVs down there
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You should see the hoops they have to jump through to not get ticketedhttps://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/30/im-not-causing-anyone-harm-rv-owners-cite-housing-crunch-for-living-in-vehicles/ …
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That's a crazy life
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Come checkout Indianapolis. We’ve got talent, tax credits, and our office space is ~20% the cost of SV.
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The draw of SV is access to capital. SV is not a tech hub, is an investor hub...that's why it's a difficult place to replicate.
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The hard part of SV to replicate is executive talent with 15+ yrs experience
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That's true of literally every business hub on the planet...not specific to SV.
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“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.” - Anatole Francepic.twitter.com/xWIKUhoOo2
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They say "There is no success without hardship" clearly in Silicon Valley people can't even afford the hardship let alone success... I mean I know "symbiotic" SV is known as the land of scaling... but poverty shouldn't be scaled, or it will be parasitic and SV's undoing!
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I think it's also underappreciated that as tech people wisely flee the prohibitive expense of Tier 1 cities to take advantage of Tier 2 & 3 cities.... they inadvertently fuel the acceleration of the cost of living (e.g Oakland) causing the same issues they had faced for locals.
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