Re:Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
by Scuds on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:28AM
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Seattle has smaller scale of the same problems combined with the same resistance to upzoning and "changing the character of the neighborhood".
They bought a house on a sleepy street of Capitol Hill in 1996 and somehow expect to be insulated from any change when twenty years later Amazon dumps a few billion into office space a thirty minute walk away.
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Re:Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?
by sverige on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:23PM
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By 1996, price inflation for housing in Seattle was in full force, as was NIMBYism. It was unaffordable enough by '92 that I got out then. I have friends who bought around that time and were paying what I considered to be ridiculous prices. I don't blame them for wanting to preserve it. They didn't ask Amazon to start there.