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Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained by cromwellian on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @02:36AM (#7590598)
I live in Santa Clara, but I still get to access the city's culture on weekends -- music, theater, cuisine, et al. Many techies don't even get off their shuttles until 7pm or more, so I wonder how many actually partake in the local culture on weekdays, and how many eat and then sleep.

I suppose if you're in your 20s and without children, it makes a bigger difference, but I find I don't often have the time to do anything until the weekend anyway, and so there would be little use paying high rents when 60% of the time, I'm just crashing there and spending all my time elsewhere.

Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained by orky56 on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @12:28PM (#7592745)
The Caltrain stops at midnight though. Make sure you don't have too much fun and stay out late or else you'll miss your transportation back. Driving is too unsafe and gets tiring as well due to distance and parking. Somehow, the majority of residents in the bay area are okay with this the status quo.
Re:SF’s Housing Crisis Explained by Apocryphon on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @01:25PM (#7593063)
We're not okay with it. We just have to put up with it because the entire system is ridiculous. Seems like ridesharing services are one of the ways we've attempted to deal with it. I can envision in the future private weekend shuttles that ferry partygoers from S.F. to other places, so people don't have to deal with the terrible parking situation in the city, and the fact that BART and Caltrain stop far too early.