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How do people afford housing in San Franciso, CA? |
Travel Info I have seen small houses that cost 750k-850k! How do people afford this? Are there any regular working stiffs in this city? Travel Tips Another element missing from these answers is population density. In the city proper at least, there are a lot more people living in a single house than in many other cities. I rent a room in an old Victorian that was converted to 2 apartments. In this "single family home"-sized lot, there are actually 8 people split between the apartments. I lived in another converted Victorian, where there were 15 of us in one "house". This is the case in many neighborhoods. It is very very common to rent just a bedroom within an apartment, because it is generally affordable for all of us making average wages. Source(s): dedicated SF renter Other Travel Tips oh this one is simple have you ever seen the show the riches? well either off someone and take over there house or you are out of luck, kidding no you are out of luck san fran is the most expensive place in the united states unfortunatly I live near SF and most people that work in the city actually live in the suburbs where it's slightly cheaper. The salaries are pretty high in the city, I think I just saw that the average salary is $92,000. If the houses are expensive then the salaries are higher. There are probably more people with 6 figure income and so can afford homes. Also, there may be many couples that both work so that they can afford the mortgage. There are a lot of homosexual couples in San Fransisco, so they usually tend to have less children and so they are both working. San Diego housing is just as expensive (or more) than San Francisco, and the median salaries pay 30-40% less than the Bay Area. The affordability in San Francisco is actually not as bad as Southern California (even though the media will never leak that out). I moved up here last year from San Diego and can actually more easiliy afford to live in San Francisco than San Diego. Also, remember gas is $0.30/gallon MORE expensive in San Diego than San Francisco... They can't afford it. Most of the working and middle-class people live in the suburbs and commute into Downtown San Francisco (or Silicon Valley) for work. Those who do live in the city proper are either poor renters... or wealthy landlords. The income gap is huge in San Francisco, and there's very little "in between." So much for the myth that the city is communist. In reality, San Francisco is a cut-throat, dog-eats-dog capitalist town that soothes its guilty conscience by embracing liberal rethoric...just like New York City. |
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