Not to mention professional gunfighters:
Posted on 07/14/2015 7:42:40 AM PDT by dennisw
Interesting read.
But, is this a problem? What are we saying?
Based on capitalism, based on supply and demand, housing in SF is very expensive.
Isn’t this phenomenon found in every major city in America? Where there are trendy expensive neighborhoods which are out of the price range of the middle class?
The city of San Francisco, geographically and in population, is a small minority of the entire San Francisco/Oakland metropolitan area.
If this is the area where wealthy yuppie types want to live, they will push up prices in the most desireable areas.
I would also point out that, to some who may have been living in SF for decades and want to move out, their $1 million windfall for selling that average house will go a long way somewhere else. Again, this is just capitalism at work.
Most of them look like aged hippies to me. Guitars and Bohemia everywhere.
Do any of these people actually work?
A cheap engineer. Saving money through low cost of living.
A crow among the nightingales.
I think even God hates hippies...
I lived in the Bay Area from 98 to 2001. I rented a 2 bedroom apartment in San Ramon. Even then, the rent was $1850 a month. More than my max BAQ as a young Army Captain.
Pricey, but a great place to be stationed.
Fairmount near Fisherman Wharf is $1000 a night.
Aside from the guy with the priceless views of the ocean, I see nothing remotely horrible.
[...we had it tough]
Yeah I know, I used to sleep under a tarp in a ditch and another poor guy said...”You had a TARP!!”
...and then the Great Depression hit.
[...we had it tough]
Yeah I know, I used to sleep under a tarp in a ditch and another poor guy said...”You had a TARP!!”
...and then the Great Depression hit.
Not to mention professional gunfighters:
Sorry about this double
There were 27 of us living in a shoe box in the middle the road!
Muhammad Ali once said something like that. He said he was glad his great granddaddy got on that boat.
Stupid me... I've even driven from San Francisco to San Jose.
Would you believe that I was thinking of Alcatraz? Yeah, that's the ticket. I was thinking of Alcatraz.
[There were 27 of us living in a shoe box...]
You were lucky to have a shoebox...we didn’t have shoes.
Quite.
“This woman and her partner live on a sailboat that they bought.”
Living the dream of many!
Yes, it’s expensive to live where more people want to live than can possibly fit there (at least without destroying what makes it desirable). If being there is important enough, it can be done with grace & style - but not with everything you want. Get creative & work hard, or move.
Good point with that #.
Sympathy for the guys sleeping on old blankets over pallets? hotel cheaper than rent? Many people live out of a backpack for months at a time as a desirable lifestyle. I often regret not taking the opportunities (pre-wife/kids/dogs) to literally sleep in the woods near work.
SF is expensive because that’s the only way to prevent so many people moving there as to destroy the reasons for its attractiveness. Can’t afford it? move.
Indeed. A lot of that is what home fashion stores try to capture and resell for a good buck (”distressed” faux antiques, etc).
Speaking of Walden, anyone notice the guy reading Walden and lamenting the fact that he lives the life Thoreau enjoyed & praised so highly?
As others note: I don't see the problem here. These people live a life well beyond what the majority of Earthlings do, and rather than cultivate their opportunities they whine about not having even better.
THIS is poverty:
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