The costs of doing anything in San Francisco are considerably higher than anywhere else in the country. The problem is that the city budget for SF is $6.4B for a population of 800K. Compare that to other cities like Oklahoma City (budget $788M, population 1.2M), Dallas, TX (budget $2.4B, population 1.2M), Phoenix, AZ budget $1.0B, population 1.6M), Austin, TX (budget $1.8M, population 743K), Jacksonville, FL (budget $972M, population 800K). Heck, even liberal Boston spends only $2.3B on a population of 600K.
What's that, 8000 dollars per person? Rather more per household of course.
That is DEMENTED! Thanks for putting up the figures!
“The costs of doing anything in San Francisco are considerably higher” ...
... because both the average and median income for an SF’er is in the 100’s of thousands a year. Any local economy is scaled to the purchasing power of it’s citizens.
The market charges what the market will bear. Life is cheaper where people make less money.