LOL start reading about Dubai sometime.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
As someone who’s not American and had a couple of job opportunities to move to San Francisco, I’m glad not to have done it.
What kind of hellhole is that city? I had an impression it was extremely expensive but also very wealthy. The more I hear the worse it seems.
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
reinar@distress.digital 11 months ago
Dubai is much cheaper
Nobsi@feddit.de 11 months ago
And much worse.
GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 11 months ago
San Francisco is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. And these tech bro pods, which aren not really a thing here, unlike in Japan where it’s been a thing for a long time.
You would get more space and a better place to live Ina nicer neighborhood for a similar price if you simply got roommates here. It might be $900 rather than $700 but if you were sharing a bedroom, which would STILL give you more space than these pods, you could easily get down to below $700. These things are preying on tech kids out of college who only know dorm-style life and have been hired into the new AI startups.
vector_zero@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s expensive because of the concentration of wealth, not the quality of the area. There’s a ton of crime, homelessness, car break ins, etc.
People often leave their car doors unlocked or their windows down to prevent their windows from being broken, but instead they find random people sleeping in their cars.
On the plus side, the weather there is quite nice.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You definitely should have done it for the resume and networking boost. San Francisco is expensive but you can definitely find deals the more you look for them. Plus the Bay Area is bigger than just San Francisco.
And regarding the other comment, $200K in SF is definitely better than $100K in Sacramento. More money is always better, unless it’s like a 10% bump. First of all, San Francisco is just more beautiful than Sacramento. Food is better. There’s more to do.
Second of all, Sacramento is getting more expensive because people are moving there from the Bay Area. It’s still cheaper, but prices are growing and you don’t live in a major city. People are paying $500K to live next to a cornfield.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Houses in my area (Ione, about an hour south ish of Sac) going for 550k or so when I bought, and again, an hour from the “big city” (sac isn’t much of a big city compared to actual metropolis but still)
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 11 months ago
California real estate is stupid. There is literal farm land right next to expensive ass homes. Building homes is like printing money.
The weather isn’t good enough to justify it, considering recent fires and the fact that you have to live in the Central Valley. Homes in hot-ass methlandia should not be that expensive.
Blamemeta@lemm.ee 11 months ago
A lot of problems coming together.
Nature is one, they’re warm year round so a lot of homeless folk are better off there.
Earthquakes prevent them from building tall. The surrounding hills make sprawl hard. Both the earth quakes and hills restrict the supply of housing.
And thats before you even start the leftist policies.
robocall@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I like the city but it’s not for everyone. I definitely wouldn’t call it a hellhole.