[Foundation-l] Relocation announcement

[Ray Saintonge]

phoebe ayers wrote:
> On 9/22/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
> Heh -- a wikihouse sounds like a permanent home for DevHouse:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperHappyDevHouse
>   
That adds excitement to the idea. 8-)

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