Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
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#2Seems a touch hyperbolic no? 4700 jobs does not sound like a “hammering”.
Re: Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
#34700 out of 3894200 is 0.12% ... not exactly an earthquake, as the article sounds.
Re: Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
#4This is all based on the false premise that the Bay Area is underpopulated and needs more people. This only drives out people who want to live in a place that isn't stuffed with cars that clog the streets and emit filthy pollution.
Pretending that the Bay Area needs more people, more cars, more pollution is stupid. It's just plain stupid.
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#5Seems a touch hyperbolic no? 4700 jobs does not sound like a “hammering”.
For the second straight month? Sounds pretty brutal, especially for people who lost their jobs in an expensive place like the Bay Area.
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#6The # of jobs rose by ~25% between Feb 2010 and September 2017. How does that make September the "worst month for employment locally since February 2010"?
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#74700 isn't a lot in the whole scheme of things, but part of what makes a bubble a bubble is that it either keeps growing or it pops.
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#8Seems a touch hyperbolic no? 4700 jobs does not sound like a “hammering”.
Maybe.
The way this reached #1 with no comments (until yours) makes me think that people have strong opinions about it but said opinions are too divergent from what's popular/accepted around here for them to feel comfortable expressing them.
It has a sort of "everyone expects the bubble to pop but nobody wants to admit it" sort of vibe to it.
Re: Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
#9Austin resident here. My wife and I have been talking to renovators and have heard several times that projects simply take longer these days because many workers now must live farther out from the city core than they used to. I wouldn't be surprised the same thing happens here -- to a lesser degree perhaps, as we have more geographical space to expand into -- with avg commute time being the primary constraint on growth.
Re: Bay Area hammered by loss of jobs: Lack of affordable housing strangles hiring
#10Seems a touch hyperbolic no? 4700 jobs does not sound like a “hammering”.
4.7 net lost. There’s likely more than 4.7k ppl who lost their job.