2mo ago

$100K a year now considered 'low income' in 4 Bay Area counties, report says

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$100K a year now considered ‘low income’ in 4 Bay Area counties, report says – NBC Bay Area

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2mo ago

$100K a year now considered 'low income' in 4 SF Bay Area counties, report says

www.nbcbayarea.com /news/local/making-it-in-the-bay/100k-year-considered-low-income-bay-area-counties/3857354/

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Sounds about right.
The benefit is, if you’re ever able to afford property, you can hold it for a few years, sell it, pay off the mortgage, and move almost anywhere else in the world as a millionaire.
Remote work begins to look very attractive.
- Bay Area single-family homes’ median price is $2 million. With a 20% down payment, you are looking at a $400k down payment and $10k monthly payments. No single soul can afford it, unless you have rich parents or Airbnb hoarders. Or senior+ positions for FAANG
  
  Yup, those are the people who benefit. Everyone else gets priced out. And good luck if you’re in trades or the service industry.
  
  Yep, my wife's friend bought a house in San Jose, and IMO in a shitty area. Her mortgage is $10k / month. The thought of spending a full Honda Civic every 3 months to put a roof over your head is just asinine.
  
  Seriously who the fuck is able to do this and how is it sustainable as a system?
  I don't mean to be an accelerationist but let's all get guns and wrap this the fuck up already.
I find it really funny that Texas is welcoming the tech bros now, because this is exactly what happens when the tech bros mix with an unregulated housing market.
- Unregulated? Clearly you don’t know the Bay Area.
  
  How do you think the housing market is regulated?
- Yeah it’s been like that for awhile. Tech bros have been moving in swathes out of California because they only care about paying less taxes and buying cheaper real estate.
I'm looking at jobs where they have offices in downtown SF and require full time in office because "culture" (or if they're generous, 2 days a week at home), but the pay is like $250K/year. Anywhere else that salary would be AMAZING but in SF you're going paycheck to paycheck and still commuting 2-3 hours a day. Seattle is just as bad.
Those places are beautiful and I'd love to live there, but it's not realistic for anyone who hasn't gotten some kind of windfall.
- Seattle is definitely not just as bad. Sure it's reasonably high cost of living, but you can do fine well under 100k. Parts of it are insane, but parts of it are not much worse than urban Midwest.
Artificially inflated real estate pricing is one of the main contributors to the wealth issues we're facing. A house near the big water should have no bearing on its value. It's just further commodifying a basic need for financial gain.
If min wage kept up with inflation it would be more than $30/hr now.
My, how society is collapsing. I live in the Bay Area (Oakland) and accepted that I will never own a home years ago. I live well, but I'll always be a renter because I don't want to move some place more affordable. Why? I have tickets for a lot of live shows this year that wouldn't exist in most other cities.
- What? You can just fly into the city?
  
  I wouldn't go through the hours of airport misery for shows that aren't huge. I'm seeing shows that I can get to by train, uber, or even a short walk for a couple of venues. Investing thirty minutes of travel is a no-brainer. Multiple hours has to be tremendously special. Plus the time I'd have to take from work each time. You don't just fly in after working a full day and fly back after the show without a lot of investment. There's no way flying would be manageable. And then the added cost.
it has been that way for 10+years.also the fact that its re-gentrifying to, the white flight happens generations ago, but are now flooding back into the neighborhoods. the first signs are cafes being established, and then you get a white karen soccer mom complaining about you parking in front of thier house, which is a public street, and then the multitude of white people that also give you nasty stare if your a poc approaching anywhere near thier vehicle or house.
also the zoning laws and nimby(rich white people in wealthy suburbs) prevent new housing too.

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