San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents

Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by kzhahou on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:55PM (#11434860)

SF has a lot of beautiful historic architecture, but also absolutely endless rows of bland, ugly, and tightly packed 2-story houses ("houses"). You could build over a quarter of the city and lose nothing.

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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by scurvy on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @10:50PM (#11436269)

But no one wants to live in the Sunset. You can build out there all you want. The weather is crummy and it takes an hour to get downtown on the bus.

That's why it's mostly brothels and growhouses (exaggeration).

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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by jdminhbg on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @11:10PM (#11436356)

A quick Zillow perusal showing 2BRs going for around $3.5-4k per month would seem to suggest that plenty of people are willing to live there (not me though).

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Re:San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents by scurvy on Wednesday April 06, 2016 @12:15AM (#11436555)

Sadly, these are multi-family homes in a single family home. It's a lot of 7-8 people (multi-generation) families under one roof. Not stereotyping, that's the demographic. It's also why you get a lot of growhouses and brothels out there. Immigrant families almost never call the police.

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