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Re:Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:56PM (#24207009)
I don’t think sellers will be able to dictate the terms. I don’t think you understand what the collapse of this nation looks like: it will be a gradual process; a gradual drift from the reserve currency into more appeasing debt, from some unemployment in certain regions, to the clustering of wealth elsewhere, private islands in Nicaragua, Singapore, Vietnam, New Zealand, Canada, I can definitely see places like the Basque Country essential locations with a good combination of European standards and the outdoors.

If Trump gets relected Kiss the cities goodbye. If Trump gets relected we’ll devolve to some banana republic with fancy gated communities for the few and massive homelessness. To quote Huckaby, a vote for Republican Maverick unfettered capitalism would be a vote for Trump.

Re:Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:49PM (#24206968)
I said no to Amazon for this Defense startup. Tons of options, cash, and fringe benefits. I am now, after seven or so years of calling myself a Gay San Franciscan Techie (immigrant) in a position of deciding whether buying a home in San Francisco is opportune seeing that I cannot seem to leave the city and could use the motivation. I have a big percentage of leverage in terms of implied income/cash flow/credit etc. Just don’t know if I’d be better off elsewhere maybe 70 miles upward of SF.

I love Portland, it’s cheaper than here. Seems unexplored, in spite of how eponymous they’ve become. Portland ticks all my boxes. I have family with me here and they do not like the cold weather (we’re from Miami).

Re:Zillow 2020 Urban-Suburban Market Report on Tuesday August 18, 2020 @11:45PM (#24206944)
Size is absolutely not relative. Size in California and the rest of the country is measured in feet. That said, I single out this comment to prove the obvious abuse of the English language.
Currently in S.F, rent controlled. On the fence about leaving, but I don’t see This getting better. I’m seeing this country turn totalitarian; COVID19 running rampant, and one, of many to come,Retrovirus, which is extremely disruptive to our T-cells (immune response).

Where to? Santa Cruz, too quirky? Marin, beautiful but overdone? Santa Rosa, I like this. Now, in Silicon Valley, there’s a sense of being out there; Mountain View, Los Gatos; attractive smaller enclaves.

Inner neighborhoods like the Tenderloin, SoMa, Union Square, Nob Hill, Lower Nob Hill, the Russian Hill, etc. Will probably need a lot of infusion to keep the cartels from fighting over territory. With a deficit so big, its hard to see an easy way forward.

And the well to do tech bros coddle up to the testosterone filled reactionaries. “Round them up!” Easy solution, that’s just lazy, you’re not even trying. San Francisco is also not equal to the rest of the US, I would dare say it’s closer to Mexico than anything else, but culturally California is quite diverse in attitude and flora. San Francisco puts up with a lot, always have, always will. It’s just embedded in the humanitarian pro immigrant pro minority passion of our city. I believe there may be remnants of this San Francisco but it is gone for good. 250 Million for Tech Buses and Two stems at Safeway, from London to San Salvador in one fell swoop.
Geez maybe they said, “No human being should be allowed to suffer if he is under the roof of the wealthiest nation in the history of man.” The pain leads to Police, the fear of seeing a future you, leads to shelter seeking grievance gazing.
Get your shorts ready everybody.