It's so weird to me that it's the same neighborhood people who were students or worked at non profits could afford to move to 15 years ago. The past is a foreign country.
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Replying to @markasaurus @eparillon
Most of our companies are not here anymore. It doesn’t make financial sense for many new seed-funded companies to even be based here or hire here bc they can’t comp what Big Tech cos comp and people don’t want to move here if there’s no future for them to afford here long term
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @eparillon
It's hard to see what's going to happen next.
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Replying to @markasaurus @eparillon
Crash and/or SF returns to being a big company town.
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SF housing prices are built up on the idea that the next generation will pay exorbitantly more for them (which they have been for quite some time). When the next generation of wealth creation doesn’t happen in the Bay, it’s hard not to see a big crash coming.
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House prices have already stalled over the past year, it's hard to see how they go much higher
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It’s also if fewer and fewer people decide to sell because California’s tax system discourages it, which is also what happened over the last decade.https://socketsite.com/archives/2019/05/number-of-homes-for-sale-in-sf-inches-up-but-trend-turns-down.html …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
These (staying in a community longer and having new businesses spread around the country) seem to be relatively objectively positive things on a broader societal level though, no? (There are some selfish downsides for me in there, but.)
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Replying to @reedm @markasaurus and
Not if the property taxes they pay fall further and further behind what it costs to sustain public services like police, fire, schools, streets etc. The whole reason mayors are more welcoming to tech than the legislative branch is bc the current system isn’t solvent absent tech.
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @markasaurus and
Totally agreed, out funding mechanisms are broken—the inherent flaw with Prop 13, which didn’t provide any reasonable replacement—but conceptually the goals of housing stability and diversification of employment/entrepreneurship seem positive.
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We like investing in other parts of the country. Even while I became a housing advocate, I was also quietly traveling all other the Midwest and South for years (well before the 2016 election). I just think it would be a shame to become financially insolvent Carmel-by-the-Sea.
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