"Is the Bay Area pushing people to the breaking point?"

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As long as the economy keeps “booming” in Bay Area, people will stay there regardless of “quality of life”.

Let me know when the economy tanks and people start moving out, it might actually get a little affordable again.
 
If you are living paycheck to paycheck, your living on borrowed time. Time to go. Time to find out what God has in mind for you.
 
I know folks here in the State of Jefferson who won’t even visit there anymore. I guess they don’t want to step in something.
 
Reminds me of the fact that AOC’s mom left New York because it is too expensive.
 
At least in my experience talking to coworkers, most will complain about the Bay Area’s price and maybe have a move-out plan, but no one really wants to move in the end. One major reason is simply career motivations, since the Bay Area is the best place to be for tech workers. (Seattle might be better. It sort of comes down to who you’d rather work for.) Another reason is that most places that offer a lot more than just a cheaper, nicer house aren’t going to allow for major cost savings. So ultimately, for your average young, single tech worker, moving out is a nice idea but just isn’t practical.

I also know at least one person who plans to just wait until all the baby boomers die. He thinks that’ll drive prices down enough to help.
 
Millennials are actually a bigger generation than the Baby Boomers so I don’t think that solution works logistically.
 
ZMystiCat said:
I also know at least one person who plans to just wait until all the baby boomers die. He thinks that’ll drive prices down enough to help.
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He’s going to be waiting a long time. There’s a lot of them.

Now my generation, Gen X, there’s less of us.

I won’t be surprised if the boomers outlive us Gen-Xers.

We’re too cynical for old age.
 
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There is no hope for change in moving north, because…


Gomorrah of the greens is following New Sodom down the path.
 
Seattle, Portland, SF Bay Area, San Jose, LA, etc. are one big Sodom and Gomorrah. I got out, and will never go back. Many of us in the hinterland want a new state: Jefferson. But the Sacramento politicians would never go along, and neither would the left in Washington. A new red state? No way.
 
of course. When your life and familial choices are closed because of the difficulty to have a decent housing because of the cost of living, etc, some people get mad.
The results are the rise of cohabitation, delated marriage, divorce, falling of births, angry people, homelessness, poors employees, tiredness, falling of religious practice, lack of support for elderly people…
 
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He’s going to be waiting a long time. There’s a lot of them.
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I think it is less waiting for them all to die and more waiting for them to start dying off or needing to leave their homes for assisted living. His theory is that it will drive the high-housing-price bubble to burst. He’s just not sure if he can wait that long.
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Seattle, Portland, SF Bay Area, San Jose, LA, etc. are one big Sodom and Gomorrah.
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I think we should propose a new version of Godwin’s Law. I’ll call it the Hypergenesis Law:
The longer a discussion about major West Coast cities among conservatives lasts, the greater likelihood said cities will be compared to Sodom and/or Gomorrah.
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And of course its corollary:
Such a comparison renders the full comment null and void.
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Seriously, re-read the story of Sodom and Gomorrah. These cities are nowhere near as bad as those two were.
 
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