HBO Documentary: San Francisco 2.0

[Fong$tarr]

I am watching this now. So Mayor Ed Lee was a huge contributor to this tech move. Eff him!!!

Affordable housing in texas ftw

Texas is next. I just had a conference call with my company that isn't even a tech company and we are building a huge facility there.

 

[yanky]

That's right expect tech companies to pop up shop in Texas soon if not already mainly because of taxes.

http://tech.co/make-way-silicon-valley-heres-tech-startups-flocking-austin-2015-04

 

[mugen81]

I loved living in Sunset(44th and Taraval) when I was in college.
My base rent was $1,000 back in 04 but I've noticed a difference every time I go home.
I live in Texas now and even though you can eat with more square footage, rents and house price are starting to inch up because of not only gentrification but a lot of transplants from both coasts are moving to Houston(Austin,San Antonio,Dallas).
I don't think it will ever be as bad in respects to Cali or NY but it's getting there.
But at the same time your money stretches better down here..

 

[lobcity]

1. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: The average rent for a one-bedroom here is $3,500 a month.

Source:


http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-20-most-expensive-cities-for-renters-2015-8


:x

damb in not even tryna go half on that Lol

 

[gentrification]

The Bay Area lost its flavor a long time ago, little by little the soul has been sucked out. I don't know if there is any left, let's stop that myth that all the cool people moved to Oakland. Nah. Lake Merritt looks like Wisconsin now. People look at me sideways, but I don't like it anymore and would be happy gone. Thats on me doe. 

 

[DadNboujee]

man i used to love going to SF back then me and my girl at the time would go to the city every weekend from san jose. now i hate it. my girl now still likes it.. shes oblivious to whats going on.. 

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

Y'all should see how Austin is becoming

 

[denni5themenace]

just moved up to SF for a new job. currently living in the north beach area. praying my current roommate doesn't want to move out soon because the apartment is semi rent controlled

 

[Thats My Word]

It really is depressing. Music venues are closing and the view across the Bay is disappearing with all the new high rises being built. I've only been here since 2009 and I've seen a lot change. I used to like going to the Mission because at least hipsters were tolerable and stuck to themselves. Now the tech bros are out and about being obnoxious as hell. They used to only be prevalent in the Marina but they're everywhere now. I pray they don't come to the Sunset.

I'm surprised this didn't show up in the doc:

This soccer field vid pretty much sums everything up.

Follow up vid:

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[DadNboujee]

all those tech guys got a punchable face.. 

 

[ziostilon]

Very enjoyable documentary. Thanks

When one of the former mayors was saying that a fair amount of these startup companies won't last. That will result in a large amount of young unemployed people.

And he worries how the city will have to take care of these unemployed younglings

 

[wayniac211]

Love my niners but when they relocated to Santa Clara from the stick, I lost a little luv

 

[zapatohead408]

I literally drove to Hunters Point 2 weeks ago to see the gentrification there and didn't believe it until I saw it. They are building $600-700k condos there which is still a budget price considering what you have to pay for downtown.

The whole Bay Area is really just effed up. It's to the point where nothing makes sense no more. I want to own a place but even with the income that me and my girl make, we just can't afford anything in SF at all. And outside of the city is no better. Pricing is sort of the same where ever you go but you just get more space. Even crap areas like Richmond are selling houses for $600k for spots in the really sketch areas. I literally am learning to hate it out here.

Yea, most young people really don't have a chance at living in the area. It's crazy, us construction folk used to be able to make a decent wage and live in the area we worked in. Not anymore. They want us to have to drive 2 hours EACH way for work.

Even out here in San Jose you can't afford anything. Rent is only a couple hundred dollars cheaper than a Mortgage. Pay crazy amounts for a house and then pay all kinds of money on property taxes. A house in the hood that I live in (semi ghetto) is going for no less than $600K, but it will sell for at least $50K over asking price. I'll be making good money and can't afford it. Let's say I'm able to become a Foreman or higher and I am able to afford it, why the hell would I want to pay so much?!

The Bay Area in general just isn't all that great anymore.

 

[brendasdeadbaby]

It really is depressing. Music venues are closing and the view across the Bay is disappearing with all the new high rises being built. I've only been here since 2009 and I've seen a lot change. I used to like going to the Mission because at least hipsters were tolerable and stuck to themselves. Now the tech bros are out and about being obnoxious as hell. They used to only be prevalent in the Marina but they're everywhere now. I pray they don't come to the Sunset.

I'm surprised this didn't show up in the doc:

This video got me heated right now b dudes wanted the whole field to play a pick up game but couldn't share it to play that 7 on 7. They got a permit to play at a community field too . boy with the mullet was ready to score a double hatty on them

 

[yancancook90]

The Bay Area lost its flavor a long time ago, little by little the soul has been sucked out. I don't know if there is any left, let's stop that myth that all the cool people moved to Oakland. Nah. Lake Merritt looks like Wisconsin now. People look at me sideways, but I don't like it anymore and would be happy gone. Thats on me doe. 

very relevant post to username ratio

i stay in san mateo and the techies and random startups are out here real heavy.

 

[mrd1]

Might have to move out to Concord, Hayward or South City if I get lucky, right now I'm doing OK in DC.

I'm kinda hoping for a tech stagnation to stabilize the housing market a bit.

Live in Hayward now and I've been telling my buddies this for years. If you work in the city, just BART in. No shame in living in the suburbs.

I got three little ones, though. I can't imagine raising kids there. Reps to those that do.

 

[dathbgboy]

I see two things with this documentary, 1. rich white people gon rich white people and 2. You have to adapt and build yourself or you will be consumed. The dude towards the end w/ the 2 degrees was probably living it up w/ no thought of the people who was in the position that he is now. A lot of able-bodied people in lower income areas just want to float by in life and not evolve and think that you're supposed to help them do that.

There's going to come a point where SF is flooded w/ techies, both the affluent and struggling and majority of the culture will be lost.

Gentrification is an ugly thing.

 

[gentrification]

Coming up there were stretches where I worked for a moving company. This has been in the making for 10+ years. San Francisco always has/had the bourgeois liberals, hell the Bay Area always has those people. I always thought its more of a systematic racism that goes on the Yay. The Rich get richer and poor have to fight for scraps i.e crabs in a barrel mentality. By my experiences I never thought as the Bay as this liberal paradise. Some of the most racist things I've heard were here. The majority would scoff at a comment like that including my family and friends that grew up here. But I always thought it was just as "fake as Los Angeles". That's why it's easier for me to deal with now, when it's on steroids. The difference it was slightly more balanced before. But rich white conservative white people run the Bay Area, always have. 

Send more women here...

 

[krazy88s]

I feel for my SF and Bay Area NTers. It's messed that the only industry in the area is tech stuff. From the outside looking in, SF seems like a some sort of gated community. And that Ellis Act Cali has is crazy too. Who allowed that?

 

[Fozz]

A part of me really wants to consider moving away from the Bay Area and possibly, out of California.

But I love California so much. lol.

 

[Fong$tarr]

The one thing I don't really mind is the hustle that these tech kids are all living by. I actually despise corporate money because they were the only snobby people at the time. But now that the playing field has balanced out, it's creating just nothing but overprivileged people with a harsh opinion that doesn't necessarily fair well with the natives here. I think in that documentary, there was some guy talking about how everyone is young in this city and blah blah blah. I just thought that was such a skewed perception. I know so many families and even specific, Chinese families that live out here. The young people are definitely here but it's not without the older generation that still lives here that seems to be getting pushed out.

 

[Xennial]

The one thing I don't really mind is the hustle that these tech kids are all living by. I actually despise corporate money because they were the only snobby people at the time. But now that the playing field has balanced out, it's creating just nothing but overprivileged people with a harsh opinion that doesn't necessarily fair well with the natives here. I think in that documentary, there was some guy talking about how everyone is young in this city and blah blah blah. I just thought that was such a skewed perception. I know so many families and even specific, Chinese families that live out here. The young people are definitely here but it's not without the older generation that still lives here that seems to be getting pushed out.

Depends what areas of the city, Soma, hayes valley, russian hill and all those other areas really are all transplant techies.  All generally grads from Ivy league or high level private schools that moved to SF for startup opportunities.  The ones that didn't go into management consulting or banking pretty much.  The families you're talking about are generally in the areas further away from SOMA

 

[sfc415]

I'm not hating on educated/wealthy people themselves. If you've earned it, you obviously can live wherever you want. I'm just sad that they choose to turn major diverse American cities into bland white communities and are fine with minorities being pushed out. Now you have white people doing things like selling fake @$# banh mi sandwiches for $10 when the real ones made by Vietnamese people cost $3 This is why I love Sunset with its large Asian community. It's one of the few authentic districts left.

Cities are being cleaned up (parts of SF and NYC like the Mission and Brooklyn are unrecognizable when you think of how they were when we were growing up) but at the same time you wonder why it took rich white people moving in for the cities to actually care about making these neighborhoods better.

 

[Fong$tarr]

^^^Exactly. People are forced to create these restaurants that all have to be upscale to either pay for their rent or make that much more money. Finding those holes in the walls are getting harder.

Depends what areas of the city, Soma, hayes valley, russian hill and all those other areas really are all transplant techies.  All generally grads from Ivy league or high level private schools that moved to SF for startup opportunities.  The ones that didn't go into management consulting or banking pretty much.  The families you're talking about are generally in the areas further away from SOMA

Those places are still districts in SF though. You can't count them out. SF has tons of high schools within it's 7x7 mile area. All those kids have to come from somewhere. Excelsior, Twin Peaks, Sunset and pretty much all areas that young people don't want to live in still embody plenty of families.

 

[nazdrowie]

are there any places in SF that these tech companies wont touch?