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SlimGoodbody posted:THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S THE FREEWAY. You don't say "take freeway," you say "take the freeway," as in "take the 5 freeway to the 405 freeway." Fake edit: Also, speaking as a Massachusetts transplant, they're all just highways you idiots. Stop saying freeway. 
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:"Take highway 101 to San Francisco." Bam. No "the". There is a technical difference between a highway and a freeway. It is correct that all freeways are highways, but not all highways are freeways. Look it up.
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enraged_camel posted:Seriously, the situation in the valley is so awful that a lot of techies are starting to flock to smaller but saner tech hubs. Austin is the fastest growing city in the US right now. Seattle has Microsoft and Amazon, and on the East Coast you have New York and Cambridge, Boston. At the same time, remote work in the software field is fairly common and it's gaining more widespread adoption, which gives people even more choices. There are a growing number of software developers who live in flyover states and enjoy stellar standards of living.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-business/wp/2015/02/25/what-gender-wage-gap-d-c-is-the-best-city-for-women-in-technology/ And yes, the bay area is becoming less attractive, but it's still very much a place to build a serious career in the industry. Seattle is still very much a microsoft town, and way smaller compared to the Bay Area in terms of opportunity. I've heard pretty grim things about Amazon as an employer, and they seem to have an incestuous hiring relationship with MS. "Oh, you were laid of at MS, come work at Amazon" Leading to a sort of bitter nerd office culture. (At least so I hear, I have no idea if that's actually true.) I'm not saying the bay area is the only place to get a job, but it's still, for now, a really good place to build your career... There's still a big problem with telecommuting jobs. Remember when Yahoo decided to lay off all their telecommuting jobs all at once? Mothers, Pregnant Women, etc.. you suddenly have a lot less job security when you telecommute. Don't get me wrong, it'd be amazing to live in, like, Iowa, and own a 4 bedroom house for like 100k, with a mortgage of like $1000 a month. Other places are really eager to spin up their own tech industries, . Here, have this hilarious list... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_places_with_%22Silicon%22_names Yeah, you can get out of California, and go 'ruin the culture' of some more affordable US City. Or build a ton of housing in Marin, just to see wealthy hippies absolutely lose their minds. Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wow, what's with #3 on that list? A lot of the old industrial parks I drive by around Warren and Fremont are still nearly empty on weekdays. Yeah for what it's worth I'm rather suspect about the list. It's basically more a testament to how messed up SF Housing prices are, and how rough it still is for women in the Tech Industry. If you're a strawman arrogant young brogrammer dude, you don't mind shelling out 3k a month in rent in a shady neighborhood, cuz like...you're saving the world by working 70 hour work weeks. Woo! hell astro course fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Wow, what's with #3 on that list? A lot of the old industrial parks I drive by around Warren and Fremont are still nearly empty on weekdays.
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Zeitgueist posted:I was just in the Arts District of LA over the weekend, "artist lofts" for 2500/mo and literally adjacent to Skin Row. Leases in downtown are essentially priced for gentrification/neighborhood renewal that is probably ten years out. I can really appreciate the advantages living downtown (potentially having the least-lovely commute to anywhere in Los Angeles would be nice) but those are not the prices for a neighborhood where people would not feel safe at night. kaynorr fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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TheOneAndOnlyT posted:"Take highway 101 to San Francisco." Bam. No "the". "The" is one less syllable than "highway". Therefore, "The" is the more efficient and preferred nomenclature.
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kaynorr posted:Leases in downtown are essentially priced for gentrification/neighborhood renewal that is probably ten years out. I can really appreciate the advantages living downtown (potentially having the least-lovely commute to anywhere in Los Angeles would be nice) but those are not the prices for a neighborhood where people would not feel safe at night. Yeah well it's full on gentrified, all white and they had an umami burger. Zeitgueist fucked around with this message at 20:25 on Mar 16, 2015 |
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Mar 16, 2015 20:14
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kaynorr posted:Leases in downtown are essentially priced for gentrification/neighborhood renewal that is probably ten years out. I can really appreciate the advantages living downtown (potentially having the least-lovely commute to anywhere in Los Angeles would be nice) but those are not the prices for a neighborhood where people would not feel safe at night. lol, what a dump.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Wow, what's with #3 on that list? A lot of the old industrial parks I drive by around Warren and Fremont are still nearly empty on weekdays. My last employer used a shady contract manufacturer in Fremont. I visited a.couple times and it was full of 18-24 year old Chinese women working on electronics assembly in an environment that said more "shirt waist" company rather than silicon valley. But hey, women and tech. Count it.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:40
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The former NUMMI factory, now a Tesla factory, is in Fremont.
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Mar 16, 2015 21:45
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Zeitgueist posted:Yeah well it's full on gentrified, all white and they had an umami burger. Correction: white and Asian, mostly. There's a huge set of apartment blocks adjacent to Little Tokyo that seemed largely comprised of young, professional, Asian Americans. Koreatown was a fun place to live, though. Rent wasn't quite as ridiculous, and the food/drink scene was outstanding.
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SlimGoodbody posted:Correction: white and Asian, mostly. There's a huge set of apartment blocks adjacent to Little Tokyo that seemed largely comprised of young, professional, Asian Americans. Speaking of, here's a map of rental prices at future LA metro stops http://laist.com/2015/03/13/rent_along_future_metro_lines.php 
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Re: landlord chat Last year in Santa Cruz, there was a perfect storm of a housing crisis. The university offered less housing than usual while accepting an unusually large class, meaning that a lot more people than usual were looking for housing off-campus. Simultaneously, the city started doing housing inspections, and kicked a bunch of people out of homes that were "unfit to live in" (whether they were actually unfit to live in depends on who you ask). This means that there were a lot fewer places to live off campus. Predictably, the landlords took advantage of the higher demand and lower supply and jacked prices way up, where they have stayed since. IMO landlords are scum, and are pretty much the perfect example of rich people leeching money off of poor people for deigning to want a place to live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiYmCVikjo
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Was reading an article about Houston in the Economist and saw this:quote:Last year authorities in the Houston metropolitan area, with a population of 6.2m, issued permits to build 64,000 homes. The entire state of California, with a population of 39m, issued just 83,000.  That is not very many homes, guys.
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Cicero posted:Was reading an article about Houston in the Economist and saw this: That's because its out of context: quote:Census state-level building permit data help show where building is taking place. Building permits are issued by local building departments prior to construction and are a useful proxy of construction activity. Texas led the nation in total home building (multifamily and single-family) with more than 380,000 permitted units over the 2011-2013 period. Florida (almost 194,000) and California (just under 185,000) were second and third – but of course, larger states should have larger absolute totals. http://www.usnews.com/opinion/economic-intelligence/2014/08/05/which-states-are-building-the-most-homes-and-why Also, Houston's lack of zoning making getting new building permits a breeze.
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Cicero posted:Was reading an article about Houston in the Economist and saw this: About those homes that are coming, they aren't being built anywhere you want to be, and are far far away from any mass transit, and lack water.
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VikingofRock posted:Re: landlord chat Rumor has it that the university is the one that put the pressure down on the city to crack down on the inlaw units and such.
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Leperflesh posted:The former NUMMI factory, now a Tesla factory, is in Fremont. Ah, that's right. I remember reading the news comments section about the NUMMI factory's closing back in 2010 and got this gem: quote:They're all black, Latino and Filipino! Maybe some white women! Where are the white MEN?? We built this country and now we have to take a backseat to other races...
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I remember reading the news comments section about the NUMMI factory's closing back in 2010 and got this gem: On the bright side, the Tesla plant now employs as many people as the NUMMI plant did before the crash, and it's growing as quickly as it can. Elon Musk 
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Hitlers Gay Secret posted:lol, what a dump. the price premium is worth it since it includes being able to experience The Purge movies every night
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Trabisnikof posted:That's because its out of context: Skinnymansbeerbelly posted:About those homes that are coming, they aren't being built anywhere you want to be, and are far far away from any mass transit, and lack water.
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I don't take stock in those "best places for business" articles, but Bloomberg just put us at #1 in that category.quote:There are plenty of reasons to presume that California must be a bad place to do business. The Tax Foundation says the state's tax structure is the third worst for business in the U.S. Forbes ranks California's business costs fifth highest among the 50 states and its regulatory environment the eighth most burdensome.
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Cicero posted:I don't really care about Houston (I don't want their ridiculously sprawling cities), but I was just struck by how few homes that is for California. If the on average you have 2 people to a home, that's an increase in the number of homes of 0.43%. Even if you assume each home houses 4 people on average, that's still only a 0.85% increase, which seems absurdly low for state where the cost of housing is so high. But by your logic New York must be far worse off seeing how it's got both a high population and even fewer home permits than California. Also these are new home permits including multi-family and I doubt each unit gets a permit. So this is more of a statement on Texas suburban sprawl. Jerry Manderbilt posted:I don't take stock in those "best places for business" articles, but Bloomberg just put us at #1 in that category. California is a garden of Eden, a paradise to live in or see. But believe me or not, you don't find it so hot if you ain't got the dough-ray-mi! 
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jeeves posted:Rumor has it that the university is the one that put the pressure down on the city to crack down on the inlaw units and such. Interesting. Was the idea to increase the standard of living for the students? Because if so boy howdy did that backfire.
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enraged_camel posted:In other news, San Francisco landlord finds and exploits legal loophole to raise tenant's rent from $2,145 to $8,900: The landlord may not have gotten the necessary permits to remove the first apartment: quote:Update: Jeremy Pollock, a legislative aide for supervisor John Avalos, sent The Bold Italic the following email: “It seems pretty clear to me that if the landlord did remove the downstairs apartment, they didn’t get a permit for it, which makes it an illegal merger. There’s no record of any merger permits in Planning’s system. We’ve asked Planning Department staff to look into this.”
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Zeitgueist posted:Speaking of, here's a map of rental prices at future LA metro stops  VikingofRock posted:Last year in Santa Cruz, there was a perfect storm of a housing crisis. SC was beautiful but had some of the worst living situations I had seen. I assume its only gotten worse.
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FRINGE posted:Well poo poo Crenshaw is pretty affordable. Not for long, people are already buying houses and tearing them down to build McMansions.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I don't take stock in those "best places for business" articles, but Bloomberg just put us at #1 in that category. The best part is they've been writing the same articles for 20 years at least (probably longer). The Bay Area is hugely friendly for business/industry, especially in competitive industries, actually has some very competitive laws (the non-compete stuff in particular), a massive skilled labor pool, and is hugely friendly to immigrants (in that lots of the major cities and suburbs are close to majority immigrant). Our mass transit isn't amazing, but exists, and the weather is phenomenal. Focusing on taxes is silly, because it assumes that somehow all other things are equal - they aren't. Move away from where the innovation is happening where people are off creating new companies and you aren't going to do very well, so the tax rate ceases to be all that important. Industries rife with collusion or outright monopolies, that still somehow need to employ Americans, are the ones who are happy to move to some shithole state (and get big tax breaks) where employee quality doesn't matter and employees don't have many other choices. The business may move, but the quality employees have plenty of choice and generally won't be dumb enough to move to states with less protections (and happen to be run by extremist conservatives). The spot Silicon Valley currently occupies could move or change, but it would have to be to a place that has: - A vast, deep skilled labor pool (ie, lots of top/mid-level colleges) on par with the Bay Area - Favorable business/IP/labor laws (need to be able to have people leave a company and start up their own without getting nailed by non-competes) - Immigrant friendly (no insane Christian bullshit, considering the amount of Chinese/Indian workers) - Access to vast amounts of capitol, willing to be spend on very risky (but high reward) ventures. (The weather is also a big plus I imagine) Alternatively we could gently caress up one of the above. I expect the industry to cool before the area really prices itself out completely, but there isn't a metropolitan area in the US that could really fill in. Boston and Seattle are definitely hubs though. Space-Bird posted:And yes, the bay area is becoming less attractive, but it's still very much a place to build a serious career in the industry. Seattle is still very much a microsoft town, and way smaller compared to the Bay Area in terms of opportunity. I've heard pretty grim things about Amazon as an employer, and they seem to have an incestuous hiring relationship with MS. "Oh, you were laid of at MS, come work at Amazon" Leading to a sort of bitter nerd office culture. (At least so I hear, I have no idea if that's actually true.) I'm not saying the bay area is the only place to get a job, but it's still, for now, a really good place to build your career... A lot of folks I knew who were at MS are now at Amazon, so there's some truth to it. I do know some really good people there, but a lot of them work in Sunnyvale and not Seattle. Amazon does have a lot of unique jobs in Seattle because of how prevalent AWS is. Seattle has a lot of issues though, but hey, no income tax!
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FRINGE posted:Well poo poo Crenshaw is pretty affordable. I used to rent in SC and I can't believe people were even allowed to live in some of the shitholes that I stayed in. Santa Cruz is like the perfect storm for slum lords because of the fact that it is a tourist spot plus the UC kids plus the fact that it is in a relatively isolated, compact location which limits the sprawl and new developments.
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Well this was an interesting (terrifying) op-ed on the water situation in the state.
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More opinions on water: Here Are the Water Restrictions California Should Have Passed Today http://gizmodo.com/here-are-the-water-restrictions-california-should-have-1692031986
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FRINGE posted:More opinions on water: Hey, look, a bunch of feel good measures that don't deal with ag! Lets continue with gravity irrigation as is, but you can't wash the bird poo poo off your car! (Commercial car washes recycle a huge portion of water, pay retail for water, and don't actually use as much water as people think). quote:Who is promoting dietary alternatives to meat and almonds and all the other resource-sucking foods which are parching the Central Valley? The problem is that the farmers who own these properties don't have enough incentive to save water. Drip irrigation is really expensive and ag water is really cheap, even when it is "expensive." nm fucked around with this message at 08:39 on Mar 18, 2015 |
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nm posted:Hey, look, a bunch of feel good measures that don't deal with ag!
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FRINGE posted:Ag is obviously a problem, but if you can get spoiled people in OC to internalize the idea that grass lawns and daily carwashes are "wasting water" then you have a more receptive public to the entire issue of water. Ag is the problem, what you are talking about is akin to people bitching about Al Gore for his energy use. What you are talking about is an issue that needs addressed, it is not the problem.
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nm posted:Hey, look, a bunch of feel good measures that don't deal with ag! I did think it was funny a couple days ago when KQED Forum did an hour on the drought. The first thing they mention is that ag uses 2/3 of the water in the state, then they spent literally the entire rest of the hour talking about measures to reduce residential water use. Also my neighbor was washing his car in the driveway today. 
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Papercut posted:Also my neighbor was washing his car in the driveway today. You're generally allowed to do that 1 day per week.
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Yeah I don't wash my car very often but when I do, I'm way more efficient than a drive-through car wash is, in terms of water use.
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Leperflesh posted:Yeah I don't wash my car very often but when I do, I'm way more efficient than a drive-through car wash is, in terms of water use. You aren't because they recycle water, but the bucket method isn't bad as long as you shut off the hose when not needed. That is where the real waste is. Some people park on thier lawns when they do it, which I guess if you use it instead of sprinklers that day is pretty decent.
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No talk about our Dear UC President? ‘We Don’t Have To Listen To This Crap’ when the UC Regents meeting got crashed by student protesters. http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-tuition-hikes/
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