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brooklynite

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2. Not exactly...

Reply to Clash City Rocker (Reply #1)

Fri May 24, 2019, 10:16 AM

May 2019

...the tech jobs have NOT all moved into the City; the major problem is that the people filling the tech jobs in Silicon Valley don't want to live there, so they buy up homes in SF, and the tech companies bus them down...

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Arlington sees housing boom before Amazon HQ2 even arrives [View all] brooklynite May 2019 OP

My first thought on reading the headline was "Uh oh, San Francisco all over again" Clash City Rocker May 2019 #1

Not exactly... brooklynite May 2019 #2

Are you kidding reggaehead May 2019 #7

I agree CountAllVotes May 2019 #6

I live in the East Bay on Alameda Island madville May 2019 #8

Last year we moved to New Jersey from Redwood City Clash City Rocker May 2019 #9

So all of these transplanting employees are about to get hosed on housing prices..... Chakaconcarne May 2019 #3

Yup, it's not the employees who are buying up the housing; it's the predatory speculators. NBachers May 2019 #4

Rents down in the Pentagon Mall area right now are, depending on what floor you live on turbinetree May 2019 #5

That traffic though! sandensea May 2019 #10