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Comments by "SepherStar" (@SepherStar) on "What It Costs To Live In San Francisco | Making It" video.
My grandparents used to live in an area which my grandmother referred to as "the boonies" with dirt lots and orchards everywhere. There are now no dirt lots or orchards. Just multi million dollar houses and soccer mom's who all got their nose at the same doctor, and drive Land Rovers.
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I can't afford to live in my home town. It's unfortunate but my parents didn't buy a house there when they could have and my neighbors who did have every right to sell their house for whatever price it goes for. What's happening in some areas along the west coast though, is real estate has become a place for out of state and foreign investors to park their money, and this prices local populations out of the buyer market, giving them no other option but to rent. It also drives up rents though, and that, in turn, causes less money to pump through most other sectors of the economy and makes the trickle of the trickle effect a lot less of a trickle.
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I only rarely hear that?
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If she only ate out and spent $15 per day doing it, that's $450 per month. Pricey for me but I'm small and can get away with $250 to $350 per month.
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+Enayze I don't know about the east coast but the high cost of living on the west coast is not due to taxes. It's due to supply and demand and the fact that the housing market is, in most areas, a free market. The taxes are chump change compared to rents.
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Isn't minimum wage there like $22/hour? I have friends there who work what would be a $7/hour job here, which means poverty, and they manage to travel a lot....and not just to Asia.
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Ok we will all move to your state.
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Part of the problem is these companies setting up shop in high priced 'trendy" areas to attract young workers. It's kind of dumb though if you go to college to get a good job (to make enough money to live comfortably) and end up having just as much expendable income as you would in minimum wage in economically depressed middle of nowhere USA.
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People can end up on the street fast in the U.S. and Americans often don't have the family safety net as people in other countries.
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Maybe they aren't married.
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+Hey Arnold It's not possible for everyone to move out of the state. Last time I moved just down the street it cost me almost $3,000. First month, security deposit and the moving truck, movers, packing supplies, and mileage. It's impossible to move if you can't save enough money to do it. That was the situation one of my neighbors was in. She was trapped in the state until a friend from out of state helped her out.
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Why do families who grew up in middle of nowhere Kansas insist on living in middle of nowhere Kansas? Because that's where they are from, and that's where their life is, and their friends are, and their family is.
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I can only eat half at a time so that would be like buying two $4 sandwiches. If I lived off of sandwiches that would be 45 sandwiches a month, which would be about $360 per month. Not bad.
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It must be the dry stuff because that wet stuff has gotten expensive.
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