Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart

Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by cloudjacker on Thursday July 21, 2016 @04:25PM (#12139776)

Sure, SF is merely masquerading as a world class city, by the people that live in the area. It has no grip on its elementary problems that actual world class cities have developed solutions for.

But you can have a good time there. Nobody will actually know if you live in an apartment and have startups give you free food everyday, or if you live in a tent under the highway.

Now if you are trying to earn enough to make a downpayment for a place in San Francisco.... thats not in the cards.

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by andrewbinstock on Thursday July 21, 2016 @04:37PM (#12139859)

What makes a world-class city? I'd say great architecture, great culture, high-quality museums, good schools, great universities, excellent hospitals. And people who care about each other. San Francisco has all of those.

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by umanwizard on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:59PM (#12140641)

All of that stuff put together matters less than basic quality-of-life stuff like "not having to own a car".

I go to the museum a few times a year; I take the train twice a day. I'll stay in the city with good trains over good museums.

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by cloudjacker on Thursday July 21, 2016 @06:53PM (#12140608)

Visit another self-proclaimed world class city and see what functions better

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Re:Sculpture of Housing Prices Ripping San Francisco Apart by santaclaus on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:05AM (#12141970)

Reliable public transit and bars open until 4am would be rad to have!

> great universities

SFSU?

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