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re: Silicon Valley housing is unreal
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:18 pm to northshorebamaman
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:18 pm to northshorebamaman
Why did you leave Palo Alto?
It's one of the best places to live in the country and you already had a house to live in.
It's one of the best places to live in the country and you already had a house to live in.
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Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:26 pm to MimosaRouge
quote:Because I was a kid and my parents moved to San Jose and I went with them.
Why did you leave Palo Alto?
It's one of the best places to live in the country and you already had a house to live in.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:29 pm to MimosaRouge
quote:If you are loaded
It's one of the best places to live in the country
Thats what is so strange about liberals and their enclaves
The more liberal a place becomes, the more the wealth gap grows. It quite literally does the opposite of what they preach
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:31 pm to lsupride87
Always got to bring politics into every thread.... this board has some stupid people.....
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:32 pm to lsupride87
quote:It wasn't that crazy when we lived there. My dad worked at a lumber yard and paid for a 2 bedroom house. We had neighbors with cars on blocks in their yards.
If you are loaded
Thats what is so strange about liberals and their enclaves
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:36 pm to dukke v
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This post was edited on 10/18/21 at 10:28 pm
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:41 pm to dukke v
When I was a young lad, I worked in dotcom in Seattle. Rent for a 2br apartment in Belltown was $1700/mo around the year 2000. I had a view of Elliott Bay, it was pretty nice.
I just pulled up the building I lived in, and rents now START at $3000/mo.
Buddy of mine worked at a well known software/dotcom in the SF Bay area, and I strongly considered it, but it was $2500/mo to rent absolutely tiny space in shiat areas, with on-street parking. I couldn't get into it.
What the heck are rents now? Holy crap. And there is NO way people are making more than they were when I was there. Companies were paying insane bonuses via vested stock options, that's not really the case any more.
I just pulled up the building I lived in, and rents now START at $3000/mo.
Buddy of mine worked at a well known software/dotcom in the SF Bay area, and I strongly considered it, but it was $2500/mo to rent absolutely tiny space in shiat areas, with on-street parking. I couldn't get into it.
What the heck are rents now? Holy crap. And there is NO way people are making more than they were when I was there. Companies were paying insane bonuses via vested stock options, that's not really the case any more.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:44 pm to concrete_tiger
quote:Yeah, $1700 will get you a shitty cookie cutter apartment in south Tacoma or Lakewood now.
When I was a young lad, I worked in dotcom in Seattle. Rent for a 2br apartment in Belltown was $1700/mo around the year 2000. I had a view of Elliott Bay, it was pretty nice.
I just pulled up the building I lived in, and rents now START at $3000/mo.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:45 pm to dukke v
quote:I said nothing about if its right or wrong
Always got to bring politics into every thread
But you cant have an honest discussion about California prices without bringing up politics
They go hand in hand and are directly related. It isnt like bringing politics into someone's ERA or fielding percentage
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:46 pm to RedRifle
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:46 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:This is going to piss off peej
It wasn't that crazy when we lived there.
But northern California and California in general wasnt all that liberal in the 70s and 80s. Once again, the liberal and progress movement brought about the huge movement in the wealth gap
Right or wrong, thats just the objective truth
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:48 pm to LSUMaverick
holy shite, how many people are living there?
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:50 pm to lsupride87
Whatever..... but most people that live in California have done this for years.... they have always had a strong economy.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:55 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
Yeah, $1700 will get you a shitty cookie cutter apartment in south Tacoma or Lakewood now.
I have the potential to work out there (would be remote but in person maybe 1-2x a week if needed). I don't want to live in the city, what are some areas that you'd recommend which wont completely blow up my bank acct?
Posted on 5/26/21 at 1:58 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
holy shite, how many people are living there?
Idk but that's some sketchy arse shite.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 2:09 pm to Old Money
quote:If you only have to go in a couple of times a week I'd go out towards the Enumclaw/Buckley area. It's a short drive to town or wilderness and still has a small town feel.
I have the potential to work out there (would be remote but in person maybe 1-2x a week if needed). I don't want to live in the city, what are some areas that you'd recommend which wont completely blow up my bank acct?
Posted on 5/26/21 at 2:26 pm to Legion of Doom
quote:
How in the hell do people live there?
I think they have 80 year mortgages and never expect to pay them off.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 2:34 pm to northshorebamaman
quote:
If you only have to go in a couple of times a week I'd go out towards the Enumclaw/Buckley area. It's a short drive to town or wilderness and still has a small town feel.
Sweet, I'll look into that area. How's the Western side of the Sound? I've never been out that way.
Posted on 5/26/21 at 3:05 pm to LSUMaverick
quote:
Look at this gem
Click the "street view"
Menlo Park is an oddly shaped town. The further south you go, the nicer the neighborhoods. The area at the top is next to East Palo Alto (and next to Facebook!) and as you see in that link, it looks like East Palo Alto.
However with the tight housing market and Facebook right there, I'm sure that part of Menlo Park is improving rapidly. Gentrification has also transformed East Palo Alto from the former "murder capital" status it had a while ago. But as you can imagine, if you have Facebook wealth you still don't want to live in a place called "East Palo Alto." You want to live in "Menlo Park."
Posted on 5/26/21 at 7:21 pm to TouchedTheAxeIn82
There's an area in East Palo Alto called the Triangle. I would not even walk thru there in the daytime.
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