[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[phoebe ayers]

On 9/22/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> 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


Heh -- a wikihouse sounds like a permanent home for DevHouse:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHappyDevHouse

-- phoebe