[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[Ray Saintonge]

Delirium wrote:
> Florence Devouard wrote:
>   
>> I have another argument to push 
>> along, which I think would impair our grown very soon in the future. 
>> People. People as in staff. We had the chance to find very good people 
>> in St Pete (or had the chance some staff members, such as Brion, moved 
>> to Florida in the past), however, we must face a fact: we are more 
>> likely to find the skills we need for our development in a big 
>> multicultural city than in St Pete, in particular for the senior 
>> management.
>>     
> 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.

Ec