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space-time wrote:
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How is this any different than NYC?
Prices aren't just high in that area, but also in all of the surrounding regions.
Working in NYC, you can find a place in Brooklyn... or Long Island... or Staten Island if you don't mind the reputation... or even Jersey if you can keep it a secret.
Come and visit Princeton and you may change your mind about NJ. What you see from the Turnpike is not what NJ looks like.
It's not that there aren't places in Jersey that aren't built on heaps of stinking toxic waste that slowly erode the mind and twist the body into something resembling a balding gnome. It's that New Yorkers immediately assume that anyone living in Jersey is living on heaps of stinking toxic waste that slowly erode the mind and twist the body into something resembling a balding gnome.
...And they're not always wrong.
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Let's talk about something important. Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only. You think I'm fucking with you? I am not fucking with you. I'm here from downtown.
Fuck you! That's my name! You know why, mister? You drove a Hyundai to get here. I drove an eighty-thousand dollar BMW. THAT'S my name. And your name is you're wanting. You can't play in the man's game, you can't close them - go home and tell your wife your troubles. Because only one thing counts in this life: Get them to sign on the line which is dotted. You hear me, you fucking faggots?
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Living in San Francisco is perfectly doable. Lots of roommates. That's exactly what they do.
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It is certainly going to be interesting how this all plays out here in the bay area.
We bought our modest house in Marin 13 years ago and it can certainly be a struggle at times. Having a two earner household is pretty much mandatory and even at that it takes a pretty good chunk of my wife's and my income to make it work.
We play the game of what moving somewhere else would allow us to afford but at the end of the day we just can't imagine leaving (having been raised here and still having family here is certainly a factor).
It is a wonderful place to live and I do my best to never take it for granted and always avail myself of all it has to offer.
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freeradical wrote:
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Living in San Francisco is perfectly doable. Lots of roommates. That's exactly what they do.
Overcrowding isn't pretty.
I'm there everyday. They all do it. My neice goes to SF State. 7 girls in a 2 bedroom apt where they each pay $700.
San Francisco is a playground.
I just texted her. It's 6.
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I was going to stay on my kid's floor in SF. Called a week before just to check..."Uhh, yeah. We've got a friend crashing on the floor for a few months, and we already had one person on the floor. And the couch is where my homie Beano sleeps. So you might wanna find somewhere else, sorry."
I got to see the place. Tiny walkup in the Tenderloin. His "room" was one end of the kitchen. He'd sectioned it off with a shoji screen, but he had room for a small mattress and a bedside table. And was learning to sleep through people making breakfast.
But he's ridiculously happy there.
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vision63 wrote:
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[quote=vision63]
Living in San Francisco is perfectly doable. Lots of roommates. That's exactly what they do.
Overcrowding isn't pretty.
I'm there everyday. They all do it. My neice goes to SF State. 7 girls in a 2 bedroom apt where they each pay $700.
San Francisco is a playground.
I just texted her. It's 6.
So you find that to be an acceptable state of affairs?
