Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall...
by mrgordon on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:34AM
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Can you give some examples of places that meet those criteria (good transit, walkable, major cultural venues, varied dining scene) with $200k houses?
I don’t think there are many places in America with good transit that are walkable so I think it’s going to be tough to find that for $200k. And if the solution is just to move somewhere so small you don’t need transit, then you lose out on the varied restaurants, cultural events, major airport, etc.
The better places for transit like NYC, SF, Chicago, and Denver are all major cities so you won’t find dirt cheap houses near the transit.
Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall...
by jamesliudotcc on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @04:16PM
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Chicago: the Red, Blue, Green, Orange, and Pink lines all run through neighborhoods with $200k houses. The Blue Line connects to O'Hare, the Orange line connects to Midway. The bus system has a line in a grid every mile, sometimes more often, with some diagonals.
Re:Tech Workers Take to the Mountains, Bringing Silicon Vall...
by mrgordon on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @05:19PM
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Are the areas with the cheap houses walkable destinations in their own right or mainly residential communities with a subway stop that can get you to the action?
Chicago was the example that most came to mind as something with cheaper houses and transit, but without knowing it very well my sense from talking to people is that there is a lot of cheap housing in Chicago but living in the urban core isn't necessarily cheap.
At some point you have to square with the fact that your 2 million dollar home in the bay area is an order of magnitude more expensive than a comparable home in a dozen more or less comparable places, given that you'd be working from home at the same rate anyway (in this hypothetical). And then you'd have plenty of money left over to fly back to the bay whenever you'd like.