• empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    Trades or service workers live outside the area and commute or cram in 8 to a house. My uncle was driving 3 to 5 hours one way doing heavy equipment at one point before he bailed out of the area. Everyone who works in San Fran/San Jose drives in from Pleasanton, Livermore, shit as far out as Tracy and Stockton, and turn the entire 580 into a 24 hour a day clusterfuck.

    How the bay area hasn’t collapsed in on itself is insane to me.

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      2 days ago

      Yeah we visited there 10+ years ago, stayed in a hotel, and ate at a nearby Dennys and I was questioning how those hotel and Dennys employees could afford to work in those places.

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      3 days ago

      yup, its mostly all tech, which is closer to palo alto/sunnyvale. thats also where biotech firms are, besides the ones in between.