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74. Where are the better jobs in CA? Fast food in Tracy?

Mon Apr 28, 2014, 08:08 PM

Apr 2014

What if your entire family lives in SF? What if it's going to cost you $5000 to move, with finding a new place and getting a new deposit, first month rent and moving costs and you're living paycheck to paycheck?

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The Bleaching of San Francisco: Extreme Gentrification and Suburbanized Poverty in the Bay Area [View all] xchrom Apr 2014 OP

High time to move to Detroit. nt Democracyinkind Apr 2014 #1

For what people are paying for a hole in the wall in S.F... MrScorpio Apr 2014 #5

Just did a super-quick google on Detroit real estate. Found these cuties ca 1930 house for $52,000 KittyWampus Apr 2014 #10

That last one is something else. Detroit had some absolutely beautiful homes. n/t RKP5637 Apr 2014 #44

They can't wait until the next time they renew the lease yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #6

Yep. Detroit is obviously the ideal model these protestors are striving for. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #40

And nature is close at hand, as abandoned lots are engulfed in foliage... Arugula Latte Apr 2014 #52

Wow. Amazing pictures, thanks (nt) Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #53

k/r marmar Apr 2014 #2

Why don't they make these busses pick up at transit stations only? pipoman Apr 2014 #3

Had a friend that their house was valued at about 20k years ago, after the subway went in that RKP5637 Apr 2014 #4

Seems like a situation ripe for pipoman Apr 2014 #8

Yep! n/t RKP5637 Apr 2014 #43

That is because it is a perk yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #7

The city could mandate where pickup points can be pipoman Apr 2014 #9

Do cities normally mandate where bus stops are? yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #11

By proxy if the city operates the transit system pipoman Apr 2014 #13

I just don't know if we need to regulate everything yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #14

If it is used as a profit center for private business displacing pipoman Apr 2014 #16

A bus stop is causing the poor to flee? yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #17

Wow, because Google and Facebook pipoman Apr 2014 #37

Ah, let the ad hominem attacks start. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #39

lol...nice try pipoman Apr 2014 #46

Interesting topic- lower income people don't have cars but need to get to work somehow. KittyWampus Apr 2014 #19

Absolutely disgusting how these "tech companies" are creating well-paying jobs Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #12

Those multinational tech companies are so selfless pipoman Apr 2014 #15

Obviously they are not yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #20

We still wouldn't have this story pipoman Apr 2014 #26

I don't get your point..... Adrahil Apr 2014 #47

The article is about gentrification pipoman Apr 2014 #49

So? Adrahil Apr 2014 #50

Where are the people who work at Trader Joe's supposed to live? Luminous Animal Apr 2014 #55

What is your proposal? Adrahil Apr 2014 #60

Advocating the same that I have done for years... Luminous Animal Apr 2014 #84

Revitalizing depressed areas in the manner you suggest would be even more heinous. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #21

There would be nothing evil about it if the depressed pipoman Apr 2014 #24

So encourage the city of San Francisco to provide affordable housing, Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #30

Ahh . . . the neighborhood was not blighted and depressed � it's in SF brush Apr 2014 #38

The SF Chron ran an article recently that disassembled the protesters movement. Xithras Apr 2014 #56

Black folks often speak about "The Plan" AngryAmish Apr 2014 #69

Then there's this little problem... PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #18

Wow 77 thousand and still can't afford anywhere yeoman6987 Apr 2014 #22

Tax breaks so that people earning $77k per year can live in San Francisco instead of commuting? Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #25

Even Oakland PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #34

I think about how little I paid 25 years ago for my half of a San Francisco apartment with a Arugula Latte Apr 2014 #57

she can afford to live in SF, just not in the neighborhood she was in. And looking at the photos KittyWampus Apr 2014 #28

It doesn't appear we are talking about pipoman Apr 2014 #32

I responded to article someone posted that details one particular person. KittyWampus Apr 2014 #35

The subject of this article makes $77,000 per year and would like to live in SF's Mission District. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #23

Do you support use of eminent domain pipoman Apr 2014 #29

No, I disagree with the Kelo decision. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #31

Not would like to: would like to CONTINUE to dickthegrouch Apr 2014 #59

K&R Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #27

Outrage fail snooper2 Apr 2014 #33

Why doesn't anyone mention the greedy, opportunistic landlords. gtar100 Apr 2014 #36

Yep.. PasadenaTrudy Apr 2014 #41

This kind of stuff has me worried. Adrahil Apr 2014 #48

The problem isn't that the techs pay well. It's that the displaced poor people's employers DON'T. Lizzie Poppet Apr 2014 #42

Exactly. Another case of misplaced outrage. Like the focus on unions. The anger should not be stevenleser Apr 2014 #63

Why do poor people want to live in a high cost of living area like San Francisco? FarCenter Apr 2014 #45

If they work there, they would want to live there. haele Apr 2014 #54

We are talking about people who already live there. Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #68

Isn't it in one's self-interest to move to a place where your income goes farther? FarCenter Apr 2014 #71

Where are the better jobs in CA? Fast food in Tracy? Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #74

The city is less than 1/5 the metro area and less than 1/10th the Consolidated Statistical Area FarCenter Apr 2014 #76

So you offering to pay my rent? Starry Messenger Apr 2014 #79

Oooh! Pick me! Retrograde Apr 2014 #80

In the 90's when high school dropouts were getting high-paying internet start-up closeupready Apr 2014 #51

There is another, even larger city closer to Silicon Valley. KamaAina Apr 2014 #58

And that's why SF and San Jose are now the same except for the buildings Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #61

Hardly. KamaAina Apr 2014 #62

A city is the people in it. San Jose and SF have the same people, in shifts Bluenorthwest Apr 2014 #65

Nonsense. KamaAina Apr 2014 #66

It's always the same. Hippies find a cool place, make it artsy, fun, and real, and fucking yuppies Zorra Apr 2014 #64

You're absolutely correct! displacedtexan Apr 2014 #75

Living in San Francisco is a luxury good. AngryAmish Apr 2014 #67

The BART extension to Rhinelander has been put on hold indefinitely. KamaAina Apr 2014 #70

Median rental housing $689 FarCenter Apr 2014 #72

But watch out for da hodags! nt AverageJoe90 Apr 2014 #73

I have to as what a hodag is. nt grasswire Apr 2014 #77

Here's da Hodag, on da Wiki. /Wisconsinite accent AverageJoe90 Apr 2014 #78

folkloric? I got bit. AngryAmish Apr 2014 #81

Rent costs have turned our inner cities into yuppie lands. It's happening in ATL as well. YOHABLO Apr 2014 #82

Well, DU is partially funded by Google Adsense. Nye Bevan Apr 2014 #83