Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
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Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#2See, also, Matt Yglesias on parking regulations, among other things:
Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#3I wonder if some enterprising soul could park up some old cruise liners and rent them out if the building regulations are that much of a problem.
Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#4I wonder if some enterprising soul could park up some old cruise liners and rent them out if the building regulations are that much of a problem.
You would probably want to put them off half moon bay and 12+ nm out, so you can get the immigration benefit as well.
Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#5I wonder if some enterprising soul could park up some old cruise liners and rent them out if the building regulations are that much of a problem.
Like BlueSeed? http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/06/blueseed-startup-ship/
(How do I create a link on HN again? The one place where a "help me with formatting" link would do some good - the reply page (http://i.imgur.com/R8oS8.png) - of course doesn't have one.)
(Edit: Turns out the "edit" page does have it, and shows that there really isn't a way.)
Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#6I wonder if some enterprising soul could park up some old cruise liners and rent them out if the building regulations are that much of a problem.
Like BlueSeed? http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/06/blueseed-startup-ship/ (How do I create a link on HN again? The one place where a "help me with formatting" link would do some good - the reply page ( http://i.imgur.com/R8oS8.png ) - of course doesn't have one.) (Edit: Turns out the "edit" page does have it, and shows that there really isn't a way.)
Oooo.. that's nice, but a pricey way to do it.
Buying existing liners, rafting them up and retrofitting would seem like a more achievable aim in practice.
You could probably get some off Costa at the moment for less than the market rate.
Re: Why the San Francisco Bay Area should have 11 million residents today
#7Have these people looked at North San Jose lately? They have been tearing down office buildings (Sony, on Zanker) and have been putting up huge residential complexes. One of them just opened its first phase, and many more are on the way.
Basically, anywhere between the Guadalupe River and Coyote Creek north of Montague is starting to go crazy, and if that isn't the Valley, I don't know what is.
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#8But the real estate restrictions will never change, not in the foreseeable future.
If you imagine a world where that fact will never change in any usefully short future, then you have to work around it.
Why does the software industry need to all be located together? Yes I know, software includes startups, and it's easier to pivot and meet investors and all that when you're together. And yes, it's often more effective to be working face to face with your team mates.
Which means that development practices and industry organization are wrong for the economics of the industry, at least that part of the industry located in highly concentrated and unexpandable locations.
However we're building apps, systems and businesses right now, we're doing it wrong, if mere real estate is what's hindering hiring.
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#9I am moving there anyway. Bringing my camper.
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#10Also, not as many women => not as many babies supporting population growth.