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rl1987

> To be realistic ... 300K in the bay is barely livable if you're targeting a middle class life with kids and targeting retiring at 65.

LOL. Do you live in Mars?

If 300k is "barely livable", then how does a Starbucks barista make a living in SV?

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By instead living in the northern or eastern East Bay (exhibit 12): https://www.freddiemac.com/research/insight/20170404-service...

Or by living in someone's backyard shed: https://news.stanford.edu/2021/05/04/revealing-complexities-...

Or by sharing one-bedroom apartments to split rent, and eating as little as possible, to afford closer housing and reduce commuting costs: https://www.reimaginerpe.org/20-2/Goldman

They don't; it's like a whole big thing in city planning and urban development where people who work in the city don't actually live there and have to commute huge distances each day, and how that has a profound negative impact on the spaces where that happens.

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