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Have housing prices in the bay gotten that bad? When I lived in Oakland ca. 2008, I had a great place (right on Lake Merritt, gated parking, ~10 min walk to 19th Street BART) that my roommate and I split for $750 each. Is that really so unreasonable now?
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OxMan posted:I feel like no one in this thread that talks about the bay area has actually lived here the last few years. A room in san jose for 500? Only in the ghetto, and that's IF you're lucky. We live in a 2 bedroom that costs 1450 a month in a neighborhood that has the street blocked off by the police once a week and has practically no insulation and shaking windows every time the wind blows. 250 of those bucks in the last 2 years. I have friends in SF that pay that much for a studio in the tenderloin (hella ghetto for you non cali folk). poo poo has gotten insanely unlivable here, to the point where various grassroots groups are starting to pop up to try and slow down the insane rate rent is going up because everyone is living with their parents in low income housing on food stamps and are still unable to make ends meet. The elderly are expected to live off not even a grand in social security, somehow. My family and myself are actually leaving CA next month because outside of New York basically anywhere else is more reasonable. poo poo is really bad here. Like yeah homegirl is an idiot, but poo poo is still really hosed. I don't know how seriously I can take you if you really believe the Tenderloin is "hella ghetto."
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Feb 21, 2016 19:14
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the great deceiver posted:well to be fair i used to buy heroin in the tl pretty regularly and it's not a very nice area. it's just that the poverty is concentrated into a really small area that is right next to a really nice area so it seems more intense than the endless ghettoes of oakland, stockton or sac. No you're right - it's definitely pretty seedy as far as SF goes. I guess my definition of "ghetto" is "someplace I wouldn't walk through during the day," but I'm comfortable walking through the TL at all hours of the night because it's perfectly safe.
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Feb 21, 2016 19:28
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I think she must have been pretty delusional about her "career path" being entry-level call center rep --> #socialmediaspecialist in a year. They probably mentioned something about advancement but probably meant like getting into management of the call center or something. It's like if IBM started you in the mail room for a year before making you a software engineer.
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Feb 21, 2016 23:18
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I don't see how Yelp in particular is to blame for that
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Feb 21, 2016 23:31
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WampaLord posted:gently caress Yelp and their penny pincher ways, but goons have to hate on this girl because she dared to speak up and she didn't make all the perfect decisions. She didn't just not "make all the perfect decisions," she made a series of legitimately terrible decisions and seems incapable of acknowledging the possibility that some of this was her fault. Don't act like Yelp is luring away starry-eyed recent grads from all over the country to work for a pittance answering phones.
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Feb 21, 2016 23:52
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Uncle Salty posted:Drat, already gone. Are you on your phone? It didn't work on mobile for me but I can see it on my laptop.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:02
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Also, you know she's probably received thousands in donations already.
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Feb 22, 2016 00:04
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The media keeps referring to her as a "tech employee." Her job was to talk on the phone to people who were pissed that a pizza place hosed up their order. Are the janitors at Google in STEM careers now?
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Feb 22, 2016 00:20
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Drunk Canuck posted:She doesn't. Really? Looks to me like she made several points, many of which have been echoed in this thread.
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Feb 24, 2016 22:05
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Honestly the context of this is what I can't get over. So she texted that to a friend and was so enchanted by her own wittiness that she took a screen shot of it, on her phone, and then posted it online? Is that something people do?
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Feb 24, 2016 22:21
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There's more to college than just job training 
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Feb 25, 2016 05:12
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:really? 0 milliseconds?
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Frosted Flake posted:So if internet proliferation, more education, and easier visas make it easier for India and China to take STEM jobs, A job as a job automator sounds promising.
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