If you're in industry, you can stay if you're executive level, but rank-and-file engineers will need to move to the East Bay or leave the region. Or you gotta make sure you're the master tenant on a rent-controlled property and be OK with a perpetual background risk of eviction.
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And if you can't afford the rent, you can apply for one of these housing lotteries, which are harder to win than it is to get into Stanford. Or you can overcrowd in unsafe conditions. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/upshot/these-95-apartments-promised-affordable-rent-in-san-francisco-then-6580-people-applied.html …
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Because the Bay Area is actually a wealthy, gated retirement community where all the property owners don't pay enough in property taxes and therefore the system must rely on mega-corporations to keep it and the state of California financially afloat.
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And then the people who got here first get mad that this entire system, which they are also part of, means that no one exactly like them who showed up in the late 1970s can afford to show up anymore.
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Nah man. I work in architecture and there's things you people don't understand. the recession devastated our industry and lots of people left and there's labor shortages everywhere. We'd love to build more. It isn't as easy to build a shit ton of new housing as you think it is.
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I think I've spent four years on this subject. I never said it was easy. I was pointing out that SF elected someone who has lived here for 40 years and bought in that long ago so he has no idea how expensive it is right now and how hard it is to build stuff.
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The East Bay is not an alternative to SF either for private homeowners or commercially. It's just as expensive as SF if not higher.
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The East Bay ties it all together!
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No no, the East Bay is terrible. San Franciscans should definitely not move here and drive up home prices before, uh... we've had a chance to buy. I hear Portland and Seattle actually build housing though!
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Seattle is for sure... yeah Seattle look there...
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