Delirium wrote:
I think the last part of your comment is key. The
Bay Area is great for
wealthy people like senior management; less so for other people (the
median house costs more than US$500,000). Unless you plan to only hire
wealthy people, or to pay very high salaries, nobody can really afford
to live anywhere near a downtown-SF office. And I say this as someone
temporarily living in the Bay Area (how do I afford it? tiny, temporary
rental housing until I finish up my PhD and move somewhere more
affordable). It's also extremely expensive for visitors; any savings in
flights for SFO versus Florida will be swamped by the massively more
expensive hotels.
Since this is supposedly a grass-roots-based organization, that ought to
have been a consideration IMO.
With the way the US mortgage market is going there could be some cheap
foreclosures to pick-up.
If that includes a small apartment building. We could have a wiki-house
as a place for visitors to find inexpensive accommodation.