California bill to add more housing in single-family neighborhoods blocked

Re:California bill to add more housing in single-family neig... by magduf on Thursday May 16, 2019 @05:08PM (#19933237)

No, because there's nothing requiring people to live in the Bay Area. They can live in other, cheaper locales. You do realize there's an entire continent out there, don't you?

If lesser-paid people would just leave the area, leaving that area without service workers (or having to pay ridiculous wages for them, driving prices way up for the wealthy homeowners there), the problem will solve itself.

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Re:California bill to add more housing in single-family neig... by anon1m0us on Thursday May 16, 2019 @06:25PM (#19934046)

That's not actually what happens though. Ask someone trying to staff a restaurant how easy it is to find employees.

Basically the service industry just ... evaporates. I've seen it happen in areas with a lot of foreign ownership.

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Re:California bill to add more housing in single-family neig... by magduf on Friday May 17, 2019 @10:49AM (#19940105)

What are you getting at? Are you saying that restaurants won't pay their staff very high wages to entice them to commute for several hours, and that the restaurant will go out of business?

How exactly is this a problem?

Too bad for the restaurant owner, but he can re-open in a place where he can hire staff more easily.

Why does the Bay Area need restaurants? If the wealthy homeowners there don't want any lowly restaurant staff living around them, then why should they have any restaurants?

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