I lived in Manhattan for a while, in the Flat Iron district, in a nice 1 bedroom condo (~850 square feet), and my mortgage was $280K. Sure, that is more expensive than where I'd lived before (DC, Houston) but NYC is different than the bay area: * fantastic public transportation. If you can't afford to live in the city you can live 30 miles out on Long Island or New Jersey, etc. and still get to work in an hour The other thing I think you missed is it isn't so much the tech workers that are in trouble, it is all the other people that make up a community, people who work in restaurants, police and firemen, teachers, etc. Can you imagine trying to recruit police officiers "it's a great job, we're just asking that you put your life at risk every day and you'll make enough to qualify for subsidized housing!! What a great community, please join it!!". Sure, you can tell all the teachers to hit the road if they can't afford it, but then what future are you planning for?
Well, too many replies to read them all, I'm sure somebody pointed out what I'm going to say:-)
The problem is sure, maybe not all the software for linux or maybe even not all parts of linux itself is super high quality. But I refuse to believe that every single line written for a commercial (closed source) OS is a work of brilliance either. And between the two guess which will evolve faster?
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I lived in Manhattan for a while, in the Flat Iron district, in a nice 1 bedroom condo (~850 square feet), and my mortgage was $280K. Sure, that is more expensive than where I'd lived before (DC, Houston) but NYC is different than the bay area: * fantastic public transportation. If you can't afford to live in the city you can live 30 miles out on Long Island or New Jersey, etc. and still get to work in an hour The other thing I think you missed is it isn't so much the tech workers that are in trouble, it is all the other people that make up a community, people who work in restaurants, police and firemen, teachers, etc. Can you imagine trying to recruit police officiers "it's a great job, we're just asking that you put your life at risk every day and you'll make enough to qualify for subsidized housing!! What a great community, please join it!!". Sure, you can tell all the teachers to hit the road if they can't afford it, but then what future are you planning for?
Your rent has gone up about 5.9% a year over those 17 years you've lived there. That isn't so bad.
Well, too many replies to read them all, I'm sure somebody pointed out what I'm going to say :-)
The problem is sure, maybe not all the software for linux or maybe even not all parts of linux itself is super high quality. But I refuse to believe that every single line written for a commercial (closed source) OS is a work of brilliance either. And between the two guess which will evolve faster?