Re:Housing in the Bay Area
by jackfoxy on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @10:53PM
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Believable (17.9%) if you are measuring only within the S.F. city limits. San Mateo and Marin counties and the East Bay have huge tracts of open space for metropolitan areas.
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That is the unspoken thing, the "third rail" of SF Bay area housing is the fact we have a huge Green Belt surrounding the bay.
Yes, we pride ourselves on our parks and reserves and natural beauty. But meanwhile Marin County's population hasn't really changed in 30 years, while commuters from Stockton have grown three or four orders of magnitude. There's a real bay incumbent insiders versus valley outsiders thing going on.
Same can be said for the surrounding areas of some of the other cities on the list.
Re:Housing in the Bay Area
by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @11:13PM
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Not Singapore or Hong Kong of course, but those are special cases.
Re:Housing in the Bay Area
by joshrotenberg on Thursday May 26, 2016 @12:47AM
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I'm always amazed at how much open, undeveloped space one can see looking eastish when up in Tilden Park out here in the East Bay. It's fantastic.