Woman gets onto runway at SFO

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ChasenSFO said:
It'll happen. I think it will be felt more in SF itself then the Bay Area as a whole. All this $4,000 a month to live in what used to be a so-so part of the Mission District will hopefully be the casualty when the bubble bursts. Then the next big tech thing will probably start rising in the Bay Area again and it'll rinse cycle repeat.
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If there's a fire sale in the bay area when Mr. Hipster's "Killer App" company goes tango uniform, I'm moving back! :)
 
ChasenSFO said:
It'll happen. I think it will be felt more in SF itself then the Bay Area as a whole. All this $4,000 a month to live in what used to be a so-so part of the Mission District will hopefully be the casualty when the bubble bursts. Then the next big tech thing will probably start rising in the Bay Area again and it'll rinse cycle repeat.
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SF proper added 75000 residents last year with like 1000 new housing units developed.

There is a small problem.
 
dasleben said:
Yes indeedy. A beach vacation can cost thousands, and most people probably won't get much out of it other than sitting next to hundreds of other vacationers in the sand. Me? My new place allows me to walk 3 minutes to the beach with a surfboard under my arm. When you can do that, all the talk about high cost of living (and it is high, trust me) simply becomes background static. It is, as they say: Worth. Every. Penny.
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I say this without offense, but I have to assume you don't have kids? Once those lil ones come then the school equation comes into play along with property taxes. The better school areas have much higher property taxes and higher priced houses.

Yet, seems to be no shortage of people willing to pay it when they could live like kings on that money most anywhere else in the country. Must be a reason. Now I don't agree with the cost of living out here, obviously I wish it were lower. However, those of us who are already from here either have to abandon the place we love or be money hungry, the result is most of my friends are successful and can afford to do fun things(Vegas weekend trips for example) despite the cost of living. And I went to a public school in a suburb of SF where less than 10 in my graduating class of 300+ didn't go to at least community college with the vast majority going to 4 years.

I'm honestly really glad I'm from here as I didn't realize how much I loved this place until I traveled around the country for a few years. I love Boston, for example, but snow, cold...I just can't imagine a life where you regularly live around the weather. Very restrictive for my tastes. But what I like most about here is people are mostly happy. Everyone has their problems, but I think most of us feel very fortunate to be here. Especially those like myself who wouldn't be able to live here without having been born here. I wonder what my grandpa would have said in 1950 if someone told him his $50,000 house in the isolated Millbrae hills looking down on the prop-liners at Mills Field would be worth 7 figures by the time he passed away. Things sure change.
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This actually helps prove my point. It's the fact that house has gone from 50k to 1+million that is beyond ridiculous. The SFO area is for the young, the single, and/or the married with no kids.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I say this without offense, but I have to assume you don't have kids? Once those lil ones come then the school equation comes into play along with property taxes. The better school areas have much higher property taxes and higher priced houses.
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I don't have kids, but the people who had my place before me certainly did. Schools are excellent here.

And I don't know about Jersey having low property taxes... http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/post_68.html
 
dasleben said:
I don't have kids, but the people who had my place before me certainly did. Schools are excellent here.
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And now you live there which means they don't. Where did they go?

And I don't know about Jersey having low property taxes... http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/post_68.html
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It's not low but it's lower than the Bay Area. My 3 bd/2bath taxes are $6,300 per year. And, there are two elementary schools: Pre K - 2nd and 3rd-5th. So here our taxes pay the pre-K because it is included in the public school system. Other places you'd have to pony up the $$$$ for pre-K. It's just one small advantage.

The link you provided states half of them want to "eventually" leave their state. "In comparison, only 45 percent of current residents say they’d like to live out their lives in the Garden State." I'm not sure how this statistic is relevant. No one can give an realistic answer if they will live out their lives in their state. Who knows what life will bring? I'd say the overwhelming majority of Americans, at some point in their life, will leave the state they are in.
 
Every place has its redeeming qualities. Worst place I ever lived was a suburb of Pittsburgh. Saying that, I miss Carson street something awful. Anyone know if Cambod-Ican Kitchen delivers?
 
Derg said:
And Snookie and JWOWW.

Jersey, uhh… rocks or something.
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