Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%

Re:Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by alnayyir on Sunday April 03, 2011 @04:51AM (#2402210)

>, and they probably can't afford a house.

I moved to the bay area recently, and I'm an engineer. I was kind of wondering how people actually live out here. I came here from New York, so I get how people can rent for their whole lives, but I had thought that there'd be more reasonable home ownership in the bay area.

Not so. :\

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Re:Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by tesseract on Sunday April 03, 2011 @06:02AM (#2402301)

I'm a recent (last few months) migrant to the bay area. I have to say, for a city that hates capitalists, San Francisco sure is expensive.

(hmm, maybe there's some causation there?)

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Re:Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by stellar678 on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:17AM (#2402718)

Hates capitalists? This city was built on gold and the resulting necessary banking infrastructure. It's the financial center of the west coast!

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Re:Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by tesseract on Sunday April 03, 2011 @10:26AM (#2402743)

I'm thinking of the rent control, the seemingly extreme (compared to anywhere else I've experienced) adversity toward any kind of building or redevelopment, the ongoing Twitter dustup, and so forth.

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Re:Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% by alnayyir on Sunday April 03, 2011 @03:02PM (#2403543)

Stow the politics, this is NOT the place

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