Dorm living for professionals comes to SF
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Dorm living for professionals comes to SF
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Re: Dorm living for professionals comes to SF
#2Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet.
I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
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#3Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet. I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
Read your own comment again. It seems you already have your answer.
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#4Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet. I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
You go to SF to launch your career then GTFO ASAP to a less 'enlightened' part of the US where you don't have to worry about hyper sensitivity and your dollar actually counts for something.
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#5Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet. I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
Not to make you question it further, but after living in the Bay for a long time, I can't wait to leave. I seriously don't think it's a place worth living.
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#6> “If you think about the most private things that you do, a lot of them are related to the bathroom,” said Mr. Dishotsky, 34. “So that’s probably the hardest part.”
Is he referring to masturbation? I kinda doubt people masturbate in the bathroom.
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#7“I feel like I’m in a relationship with everyone I live with,” Ms. Ndrepepaj said. “If their day is bad, your day is bad.”
Hardly a selling point. As an introvert it's just within my capabilities living with my wife and playful cat; living in such an environment would be a nightmare for me. The article fails to address the 'bad roommate' situation, which always happens sooner or later with these shared-living environments.
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#8> to turn into dorm rooms for the middle class.
let's be real here, the middle class in the bay area/SF makes $250k+ per household.
there's nothing wrong with living in dorms, but there is something disturbing about calling this the 'middle class' in SF.
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#9This article says it's "an unusual experiment", but how is this different from an SRO?
http://www.ccsroc.net/s-r-o-hotels-in-san-francisco/
Description from this article of the "experiment": "Shared bathrooms at the end of the hall and having no individual kitchen or living room".
Description from the SRO web site link above: "A typical S.R.O. is a single eight (8) x ten (10) foot room with shared toilets and showers down the hallway."
As the SRO web site points out, these have been around in San Francisco "throughout the city’s history".
Re: Dorm living for professionals comes to SF
#10Ah,the American dream. Go through four years of college and 100k of student loans so you can live in a $2400 dorm room while barely making ends meet. I'm moving to the Bay area in a few months and these sorts of stories make me question whether it's the right move.
No, it isn't.
Join an org doing something cool, then immediately start pushing to work remote. Or make sure that you'll see a good payout and cash out & gtfo.