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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Blame the housing policies. The environmentalists and hippies blocked all new housing development in the SF area. [/b]As a result, a growing population had nowhere to live, and housing prices skyrocketed (the ol' supply and demand at work). A 2-bedroom rambler in bad shape can go for $1mln nowadays.

It's gotten so bad that people are finally starting to leave. Due to high demand for moving trucks, it's now $2,000 to rent a UHaul to leave SF, and $200 to take one there: https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/08/u-haul-prices-reflect-growing-push-to-leave-silicon-valley/[/quote]
Ain't no NIMBY like a SF Bay Area NIMBY. Not to go off on a tangent, but a great example: I used to work at SFGH (now "Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center"...another emblem of what the area has become), where the neighborhood association lobbied endlessly to prevent a Medivac helipad because they didn't want the noise (traumas and cardiac arrests, be damned!). Mind you, the surrounding neighborhood backs up to the busy 101 Freeway. Until UCSF's Benioff campus opened with a helipad, San Francisco was the only major US city without air medical access. (steps off soapbox)

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S.F. is full of entitled liberals - both rich and poor!
THey deserve what they got![/quote]

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