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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > Aw, snap! Something went wrong.
 
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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry

Sagebrush posted:

you ask this about a corporation that

- is building a college dorm for its employees
- doles out human contact ("massage credits") to people who work hard
building housng is cool and good, its not like mtview is the middle of buttfuck tennessee where no one else lives within 300 mile radius leading to company towns. plenty of jobs to easily jump ship to and find (expensive) housing v quickly. i support them trying to build housing when rest of the southbay is steadfastly refusing to and it'll lead to slight downwards pressure on rental demand for others.

also iirc dont they just have on-site masseuses anyways? i was chatting with a guy who sells office furniture and stuff and said he was offered massages and stuff while he was there and the place was ridiculous as media made them out to be.

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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

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Sagebrush posted:

i support the building of housing in theory, but lomarf if you think it's not gonna be (1) a family-unfriendly worker hole for unmarried 20-30somethings to keep living like they did at stanford and (2) a company-town-esque ploy to keep people at their jobs longer and return some of their salary to the employer


also this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QCySNv7cxA

"someone else whose job it is to figure out how to set up rooms determined that this table would look good here"
they're wanting to build about 10k units, the city is fighting them and trying to force htem to cut it down to 1500 units which is stupid

http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/06/26/google-fights-plan-to-slash-mountain-view-housing-development-to-1500-units-from-10000/

quote:

Under the October draft plan, small “micro-unit/studios” were to make up 40 percent of the housing, followed by 30 percent 1-bedroom units, 20 percent 2-bedroom units and 10 percent 3-bedroom units. Twenty percent of units were to be considered “affordable.”

i think having 4k units for all the boring pasty midwestern transplant fucks who never leave work or their studio is fine. leaving another 3000 for married people to have kids in 2-3 br apts and another 3000 for couples for 1br is p good

also they're trying to have business and transit development htere which is good

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Xaris
Jul 25, 2006

Lucky there's a family guy
Lucky there's a man who positively can do
All the things that make us
Laugh and cry
and really the most useful is is reducing demand on housing in sf, etc so good units arent wasted on boring googlers that don't even really care about just having a studio

but ya the city is going to throw a shitfit and probaly force htem to cut it down to <1500 units unfortunately. probably asking higher so they know they'll get pushed back to go less and everyone go can home happy as "win"

Xaris fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Jul 1, 2017

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