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View Poll Results: Why is the Bay area more expensive on average than So Cal?
It's because of the density of higher paying jobs, stupid 58 52.25%
The Bay area is so much nicer than So Cal, no really, I believe that 30 27.03%
So Cal is inhabited by uncivilized barbarians whereas the Bay area is not 10 9.01%
The fog is lovely in summer along the coast up this way, cool weather is nice, warm sucks 6 5.41%
People in So Cal do not even know how to read, right? 7 6.31%
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Old 03-09-2015, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Seattle, WA
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The poll is hilariously written! No joke, this is how many Bay Area residents feel about So.Cal. So many there treat it as if it's an extension of Tijuana or something.
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Old 03-09-2015, 11:33 AM
 
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The poll is hilariously written! No joke, this is how many Bay Area residents feel about So.Cal. So many there treat it as if it's an extension of Tijuana or something.
The tongue in cheek seems unnoticed.
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Old 03-09-2015, 11:55 AM
 
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I think it all comes down to the high availability of tech jobs in the SF/SV area.

I would love it if the tech jobs were all in SoCal instead. Better weather IMO.
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Old 03-09-2015, 12:34 PM
 
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Dude, most homes in NorCal do, too. What are you talking about? You're comparing all of SoCal with one city in NorCal? Come on, you know better than that.
Relax......

I was comparing SF to So. Cal , yes, because the topic seemed to center on SF solely.
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Old 03-09-2015, 02:19 PM
 
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Same problems as SoCal but worse. Not enough housing close enough to jobs. Lots of overseas cash coming in, yada yada.
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Old 03-09-2015, 07:21 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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The tongue in cheek seems unnoticed.
I was holding my breath lol.
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Old 03-09-2015, 08:09 PM
 
Location: On the water.
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I was holding my breath lol.
Waiting to exhale .....
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Old 03-10-2015, 10:19 PM
 
Location: Laguna Niguel, Orange County CA
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Waiting to exhale .....
What if there were shreds of truth to So Cal stereotypes though?
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Old 03-11-2015, 03:52 PM
 
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Well, yes. I thought about that, as I was writing earlier. The image Bay area natives, or long-term residents, have of LA hasn't caught up with the newer reality of the Bay Area: the freaky traffic, mainly. The image of LA is still: smog, freeway maze, sprawl. It's like a knee-jerk reaction. People don't look deeper than that. If there are museums, they don't know about them. Great beaches? Haven't seen 'em. But the traffic in the Bay Area is really at the point of bringing the whole place down. And people keep coming. I don't know what the solution will be, because pretty soon, it's going to be all-day-long gridlock.

It also hasn't caught up with the newer reality of L.A., which now has a large, and rapidly expanding, rail transit system.
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Old 03-11-2015, 06:12 PM
 
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Id rather live in the SF where everything is at my doorstep and I can take BART or Zipcar when I wanna go further out. LA or San Diego don't exactly have cheap housing costs either, so when you add the necessity of owning a car and associated costs, it more than evens out. Combine that with the time wasted sitting in traffic, and for me its an easy choice -- Id rather be out enjoying the milder weather all the time than the warm weather intermittently when I'm not behind the windshield of a car.
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