The Starter Apartment Is Nearly Extinct in San Francisco and New York

[Warpy]

82. Like Boston, it's been Yuppied to death. Now international investors are bidding everything up to

the stratosphere, buying bolt holes in cities all over the world in case things go to hell in their own countries. Which they will.

The major problem is that those clerical salaries have been allowed to fall so far Had the rich not been convinced that we greedy working people were the reason inflation was eating away at their vast fortunes, paychecks would have kept pace with inflation and you'd still have ordinary people able to afford the cities.

The only thing to do now is to say fuckit, leave, and hope you can find a gig in a cheaper part of the country--or resign yourself to some really desperate exurb and 4 hours a day of commuting.