I’m curious to know what your ethnicity, so I may mock it.
Or is that racist?
Anyway, I am home. In Southern Illinois, where it may be flyover country in that region sometimes called Mid-South, a part of the country that Boing Boing contributors and commenters regularly mock for being poor and lacking in the class and sophistication they’re used to when they’re not too busy pretending to care about poor people. Yep, the weather’s crappy out here, it’s true, and there’s not the exciting night life or the exciting culture life, but them things is for them as has, not the poors.
SF has been an expensive place to live for decades now. Decent-paying jobs may be scarce here, but median home price here is $66k while the median home price in SF is $798k. Median household income where I live is only $34k, but median income in SF is $73k. In other words, the ratio of median home price to median household income is somewhere around 2:1–often considered the ideal–the household price to income ratio in SF is around 10:1. Great way to end up underwater on a loan. Do they have an overabundance of dumbasses there? When we bought this house 10 years ago, we bought it from a lady who was moving to LA. In the neighborhood she was moving to, she told us, our $110k house would, at that time, run about $500k, and property values out there continued to rise after that. I’ve seen pictures of million-dollar Silicon Valley homes that look like dumps compared to here. I’m glad I didn’t follow the advice of some of my peers and drop out, move to SV, get a job at a Dotbomb, and drink my way to riches. (For one thing, the market fell apart shortly after I graduated and they were out of work college dropouts with no discernible skills, so there’s that.)
When your income approaches $73k, and you claim you can’t live anywhere else or you’re one of teh poors, my sympathy trends toward zero. If you live in SF, you’re privileged. Period.
