San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S.

Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by 01100011 on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:53PM (#24771711)

In the north central US, you have to stay indoors for a while because it's too cold. In the sunbelt, you have to stay indoors for a while because it's too hot. In CA, you have to stay indoors for a while because of the poor air quality.

Take your pic. CA folks seem to think the rest of the world is an inhospitable wasteland. Sure, CA is a bit more mild, but it's not perfect.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by teeray on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:01PM (#24772705)

> you have to stay indoors for a while because it's too cold

The advantage with cold is that it’s possible to do something about it. You can always layer up and get better materials for your layers. I spend hours skiing outside at like -15F and am actually comfortable. In hot weather though, once you’re sprawled out naked on the ground, you’ve exhausted your means to get cooler without some kind of machine.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by WillPostForFood on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:33PM (#24772285)

In CA, you have to stay indoors for a while because of the poor air quality.

Maybe once or twice per decade is the AQ so bad in CA you have to stay indoors. As opposed to weeks or months every winter (depending on your tolerance - I hate cold).

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by kelnos on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:27PM (#24772827)

> Maybe once or twice per decade is the AQ so bad in CA you have to stay indoors

We definitely had stay-inside days this year and last year, and I could have sworn we did the year before as well. That blew through your per-decade quota in recent consecutive years.

I fully expect we'll have some stay-inside days next year too.

But I do agree that the number of days the air quality is bad just does not come close to the number of days where it's really cold or really hot in other places.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by bart_spoon on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:15PM (#24779070)

The entire Western US is in the midst of a climate change-induced super drought that is worst in at least 1400 years, probably longer. The air quality is degrading due to huge swaths of the area being engulfed is wildfire. Perhaps your statement was true for the past few decades, but certainly not now. Its not a fluke, its the new normal.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by ikiris on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @10:46PM (#24772624)

Sweet summer child.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by scsilver on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @08:16PM (#24771844)

Summer in the north, winter in the south.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by cnst on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @01:34AM (#24773429)

Air quality is getting to be a national issue. I think even Wyoming had some issues this season?

The problem is environmentalists don't want to do planned/controlled burning anymore, hence, the things burn by themselves on their own schedule now, out of our control.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by _AzMoo on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @02:13AM (#24773655)

I can't speak for the US, but in Australia this argument has been used as an untrue talking point being pushed by climate-change deniers. A cursory google indicates to me that in CA prescribed burns have actually been increasing over the last few years, so I suspect it's probably the case in the US as well. In Australia it's clear that the higher frequency of catastrophic wildfires is a direct consequence of climate change.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by BoiledCabbage on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @09:39PM (#24772325)

NYC -> DC corridor suffers from none of that.

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Re:San Francisco Apartment Rents Crater Up to 31%, Most in U.S. by kelnos on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @11:31PM (#24772847)

I grew up in Jersey and Maryland. The summers were quite hot, and the winters were quite cold. One winter in MD it snowed so much that heavy ice formed on power lines and took them down; power was out for six days.

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