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I'm at San Francisco’s hottest new tourist attraction ($1.6M bathroom)

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For scale, that’s the going price for a two bedroom condo in downtown sf.

I was more alarmed by the 3M sticker price reported for the outdoor education center at the Lawrence hall of sciences, across the bay. It consists of some nice landscaping, a handful of picnic benches, and some covered awnings. I’d have expected this to cost $100k-200k… with the upper range cause we are in the Bay Area. 3M!?!?

https://www.dailycal.org/2022/06/20/lawrence-hall-of-science...

A lunch at Chipotle in SF costs $15, a beer cam be $20 with tip, that's about 10-20x the real cost anywhere else. So this tracks, lol.

Chipotle burrito is $9 to $12.50 (depending on the meat you pick) in suburban Minnesota.

$15 doesn’t seem… entirely absurd.

They were less than $5 before I moved to California, so perhaps time has confounded my perception here.

Where in San Francisco does a beer cost $20 with tip?

I mean, you can find a $20 beer in just about any city with an import specialty bar.

The ballpark, this open air park/permanent food truck meet up that also sells beer called Spark Social, other places. You can find places that sell beers for $6-10, not all places are this expensive, but many are.

One heck of a pour if you're tipping $14 on a $6 beer.

Weird take, I had said that one can find a place that sells $15 beers, not that all beers are $15.

When I first heard about this i was like “oh, $1.7M? Kinda high for a small building with men/women bathrooms, but the sinks and toilets aren’t cheap so not too bad”

I was picturing a small bathroom with a couple urinals, and toilets and a row of sinks on each side.

Then I saw it was a single bathroom - one room with one sink and toilet.

Jeeze

Apparently CA governor Newsom threatened to pull money from SF because of how much unwanted attention the $1.7M restroom attracted. It sounds absurd, but an expensive public restroom in SF could compromise his White House aspirations.

Extra hilarious in light of the news that this isn't even the first toilet in SF that cost more than $1.5m

The icon on the door indicates it's also for people in wheelchairs, but the curb seems a bit high to "jump" over if you're in one.

Surely there is a ramp on the left side outside the photo or did they really mess up this badly?

You think for $1.6M, they should at least have included a bidet.

I mean how else would they legally give out money to their cronies?

On the proposed $1.7m one there's a line item for $30k to pay a consultant to do budget estimation. Absolutely insane!

Is it self cleaning, hobo proof and powered 24/7 by clean renewable energy. Oh leed platinum too in hope

Self cleaning? That would be $10M. This is just your basic restroom with a broken Dyson Airblade hand dryer for $900.

At that rate, low income housing should only be about $16 million per unit. Not bad!

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Looks pretty nice.

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