Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by eli_gottlieb on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:02AM
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That's a bit silly to say, considering SF and SV are about as suburbanized as can be. If you wanted "the big city", you'd go to New York, London, Paris, Tokyo, or some other place with actual urban density.
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Re:Rents in Megacities Can't Go Up Forever
by xienze on Thursday March 23, 2017 @10:07AM
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SV is very suburban, yes, but SF is densely-populated. "Big city" in this case doesn't necessarily imply that the city proper is 10M+ in population.
And the lengths to which this insanity will go is that (e.g.) Google workers will live in SF and commute into SV. Talk about turning the "live in the suburbs, work in the city" paradigm on its head!
I also think it's something of a SV/SF anomaly. I've lived and worked mostly west of Boston/Cambridge (which until quite recently is where basically all the tech was located) for a very long time and I've known relatively few people who commuted out from the the city.