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1   josephinebrennan150   2018 Apr 6, 7:22am  

Time to move to Michigan! Clean water, cheap housing, good schools and lots of great people
2   NDrLoR   2018 Apr 6, 8:37am  

josephinebrennan150 says
Clean water, cheap housing, good schools and
bitter cold winters.
3   Patrick   2018 Apr 6, 9:06am  

True, winters are harsh in the upper Midwest.
4   Patrick   2018 Apr 6, 9:13am  

"When young, people tend to make do with less in order to 'survive' the housing crisis," Romem told SFGATE. Survival in Silicon Valley often means living with multiple roommates and making do with less space, he said.

Substandard living conditions may suffice when you're young and hungry, but then "people hit that point in life" when they want to "set roots down," Romem said.

When kids enter the mix – and bring with them the high cost of childcare and an increased need for space – people must seriously consider whether to stay in the costly Bay Area, or go. Many choose the latter, and move to other metros with ample career opportunity but lower housing costs, like Austin, Texas, Dallas or Atlanta. A recent study even found the so-called "Bay Area exodus" has led to a regional U-Haul shortage.

These cities, and others like them in the southern part of the United States, have what the Bay Area lacks: affordable housing.


This is definitely true. San Francisco is the place that people in their 20's party and date. When they hit their 30's and start having kids, they tend to leave.
5   tovarichpeter   2018 Apr 6, 9:53am  

Why I plan to write-in Scott Wiener’s name in the June Democratic primary. He is the only person in either party who is actually doing something to solve the CA housing crisis
6   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 6, 10:23am  

tovarichpeter says
gentrification emergency

SF has a housing market emergency.
Not sure SF would be better off without wealthier people moving in, with the homeless and crimes.
7   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Apr 6, 10:34am  

They don't even hide the anti-American attitude:

You may ask, “Who cares what some dad from a flyover state or some businessman from another country thinks of us?” But consider this: The tourism industry in San Francisco supports 80,000 jobs, many of them filled by the diverse, working-class people we profess to want to keep here.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-tourist-industry-struggles-to-explain-street-12534954.php

This is in an article, not an opinion piece.

Guess what neighborhood the author lives in?

Part and parcel of the new: "Does it piss off Preoria" Leftist Mentality.
8   tovarichpeter   2018 Apr 6, 1:38pm  

Where is Gavin Newsom on this issue.
9   RWSGFY   2018 Apr 6, 1:41pm  

Heraclitusstudent says
SF has a housing market emergency.


How come much less affordable Atherton, Tiburon and Woodside don't have one? What's the definition of a "housing market emergency"? Is it "not everybody can afford to live there"?
10   Ceffer   2018 Apr 6, 2:00pm  

Upper Michigan is nice. Just get yourself a fat Eskimo squaw as a bed warmer.
11   Heraclitusstudent   2018 Apr 6, 2:35pm  

Satoshi_Nakamoto says

How come much less affordable Atherton, Tiburon and Woodside don't have one? What's the definition of a "housing market emergency"? Is it "not everybody can afford to live there"?


Rich enclaves are ok by me, but when, at the state level, you have millions less housing units than are required based on your population, and you are deliberately preventing building more, particularly in places where there are jobs, then yes, you have a 'housing market emergency', and you are guilty of ruining the life of millions of people.
12   Evan F.   2018 Apr 6, 2:59pm  

josephinebrennan150 says
Time to move to Michigan! Clean water, cheap housing, good schools and lots of great people


Yes! I hear Flint has some of the tastiest water in the country. Drink up!
13   lostand confused   2018 Apr 6, 3:14pm  

Ceffer says
Upper Michigan is nice. Just get yourself a fat Eskimo squaw as a bed warmer.

Just imagine upper Michigan is the southern part of Canada-can you imagine living in North Canada.

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