By instead living in the northern or eastern East Bay (exhibit 12): https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20170404-service...

Or by living in someone's backyard shed: https://news.stanford.edu/2021/05/04/revealing-complexities-...

Or by sharing one-bedroom apartments to split rent, and eating as little as possible, to afford closer housing and reduce commuting costs: https://www.reimaginerpe.org/20-2/Goldman

They don't; it's like a whole big thing in city planning and urban development where people who work in the city don't actually live there and have to commute huge distances each day, and how that has a profound negative impact on the spaces where that happens.