Re:Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather...
by dragonwriter on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @06:51PM
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> Apparently in the Bay Area it's pick any zero?
No, its not. You can find spacious, reasonably cheap places within tolerable -- though not short -- commutes of most Bay Area jobs.
I suspect that young, high-income tech workers very often (1) want short commutes, and (2) want other aspects of the urban lifestyle of the core of the Bay Area whether or not it comes with a short commute, which makes the peripheral, long-commute places with such housing unattractive. (Plenty of families where the adults work in the core areas of the Bay Area do live in those peripheries, though.)
> Why do people keep going there?
Because that's where the (tech, for instance) jobs are?
No, its not. You can find spacious, reasonably cheap places within tolerable -- though not short -- commutes of most Bay Area jobs.
I suspect that young, high-income tech workers very often (1) want short commutes, and (2) want other aspects of the urban lifestyle of the core of the Bay Area whether or not it comes with a short commute, which makes the peripheral, long-commute places with such housing unattractive. (Plenty of families where the adults work in the core areas of the Bay Area do live in those peripheries, though.)
> Why do people keep going there?
Because that's where the (tech, for instance) jobs are?