On 23/09/2007, Delirium <delirium(a)hackish.org> 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.
Isn't this going to be a problem in any major city? It's certainly not
unique to SF... heck, the average house price *here* is more than
$500,000* and this isn't a world-leading hub city by any standards.
A lot of these problems really are effects of moving out of Florida,
not of where specifically we're moving to.
--
- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk
* Just. I wish I hadn't looked that figure up, now...