Re:Housing in the Bay Area
by cfallin on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:38PM
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> Also, I hear Portland is nice.
As someone who grew up in Portland [1], I could write a post just like yours, and I'm sympathetic to the frustration...
But I still side with the pro-housing crowd. What are people who seek to move up in life (i.e., take that dream job and build a career), but who happen to have been born in the middle of nowhere, supposed to do? Is it fair to say "hey, my home, don't come here" when a large fraction of the industry is in one place and the individual software engineer has very little power to change that? Yes, long term, we should spread out and build clusters of industry elsewhere, but that doesn't help the fresh college grad today who gets an offer in the Bay Area but can barely afford rent.
[1] and I want to move back someday so please don't ruin it!
As someone who grew up in Portland [1], I could write a post just like yours, and I'm sympathetic to the frustration...
But I still side with the pro-housing crowd. What are people who seek to move up in life (i.e., take that dream job and build a career), but who happen to have been born in the middle of nowhere, supposed to do? Is it fair to say "hey, my home, don't come here" when a large fraction of the industry is in one place and the individual software engineer has very little power to change that? Yes, long term, we should spread out and build clusters of industry elsewhere, but that doesn't help the fresh college grad today who gets an offer in the Bay Area but can barely afford rent.
[1] and I want to move back someday so please don't ruin it!