Re:San Francisco apartment rent prices are dropping fast
by throwaway0a5e on Wednesday July 01, 2020 @10:59PM
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>It's a shift that may be impossible to arrest if or when it really gets going.
>Then we'll see thousands of articles about how SF, Boston, and so forth can't pay for the public services the cities want to pay for, and how terrible it is that companies are leaving.
Good. Stupid should hurt. These cities had 20yr and nearly unbounded money they could have used to become somewhat sustainable. That they didn't is only their fault. And I say that as someone who lives in one of those cities.
>Then we'll see thousands of articles about how SF, Boston, and so forth can't pay for the public services the cities want to pay for, and how terrible it is that companies are leaving.
Good. Stupid should hurt. These cities had 20yr and nearly unbounded money they could have used to become somewhat sustainable. That they didn't is only their fault. And I say that as someone who lives in one of those cities.