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This type of thing is going on all over the country. If you play this out to its logical conclusion, none of the people that wealthy households depend on to maintain their lifestyles will be able to live near enough to the wealthy to provide those services. I guess someone better improve the Roomba and make a dish washing, laundry, and pool cleaning bot quickly.

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In SF, I blame the high cost of living on misguided building over-regulation. If you have rising demand and a fixed supply of a good with inelastic demand, soon enough only the rich will be able to afford it.

Agreed, although there are new residences going in at Market and Noe, Market and Dolores, Market and Buchanan, A couple of huge ones (30 stories each?) near Market and 9th, More big ones on Mission and 8th. Those are just the ones I noticed driving around the last couple of weeks. I'm sure there are more, China Basin for example.

I don't even know where you'd go in Chicago to pick up a private jet, and we're the third largest metro area in the country. Can you tell me more about the lifestyle support workers who can't afford to live near rich people here?

The fact is that SF and, to a lesser but still significant extent NYC, are hobbled in this respect by geography.

http://www.chicagotraveler.com/attractions/palwaukee-airport...

Next flight leaves...whenever you want it to.

Have you heard of O'Hare or Midway? [Formerly] Meigs Field? All of these can accomodate private aircraft.

> If you play this out to its logical conclusion, none of the people that wealthy households depend on to maintain their lifestyles will be able to live near enough to the wealthy to provide those services.

Only if you prevent slums from forming. In order to do that, you need an influx of wealthy people that occupies all of the available land leaving nothing for the low-income communities.

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