to be fair it used to be a lot more common/cooler/easier to be a homeless itinerant worker like, "the costs of being homeless" used to be lower, or at least the relative benefits of being homed weren't so great citation: read an article about homelessness in Portland, Oregon
if San Francisco housing prices shock you, just imagine the situation in 1849 (as described in 1874)pic.twitter.com/UDHDdMv68G
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yeah to be fair this is probably not residential use - you could get a bed in a tent for $8 a night he says ($240 in today’s $)
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GAH that's $330/month adjusted for inflation I know ppl passing that much for a parking spot
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I thought it was 300K a month adjusted for inflation?? lazy googling gives about a 30X figure
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Fucking hell. I still maintain that it’s not that bad until you see the rent expressed per week, rather than per month, as it is here in London.
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The Parker House would cost $3.9M a year in rent if adjusted for inflation.https://www.officialdata.org/us/inflation/1849?amount=120000 …
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It's all just a little bit of history repeating....
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different kinds of goldrush aye
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