What $2 million gets you in San Francisco

[Tybee]

Rosa, my brother's condo in Cambridge is 760 square feet and one in the building identical to his just sold for 670,000.

[iris lilies]

You’d love living in San Francisco. We’re big on telling people what they can and can’t do with their property.

But I get your point. And I admit, San Francisco is the most attractive city in the country to me. Precisely because of that street scape that looks like nowhere else.

That is why you (the generic you) have to be careful where you buy.

We get people who buy into our neighborhood because it is beautiful and charming, and then spout off libertarianish nonsense when our code restricts what they can do to the exterier of their house. Umm, no. A GOOD libertarian restricts Big Government, one size fits all with laws made from far away, but supports local regulations tailored to the locale, made by residents there.

My friends and neighbors made this city law, our historic code, and we regularly get together every decade and review and change it.

thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[sweetana3]

We have those historic neighborhoods. In fact, I live in one. Very noticeable where there are no limitations. One neighborhood just next to a big historic one has three story modern candle looking tower houses being built in the middle of one story low sloped roof affordable houses. It looks incredibly weird. In fact, a brand new container house by a nationally known architect was built on one of these tiny lots with small old houses all around it. The big complaint here is the taxes on the little affordable houses are pushing up fast due to the new construction fill ins around them.

[LDAHL]

A GOOD libertarian restricts Big Government, one size fits all with laws made from far away, but supports local regulations tailored to the locale, made by residents there.

I like what Charlie Cook said about being a fairly strict libertarian at the federal level, much less strict at the state level, and even less strict at the local level.

If a city wants to dictate the shape of doorknobs while junkies defecate on the sidewalks outside, that should be mostly a matter for the residents and the U-Haul logistics staff.

[Teacher Terry]

I used to love San Francisco. I used to go yearly. The last time I was there about 5 years ago it was so dirty and disgusting that I haven’t been back. I can barely smell anything and the urine smell was awful. There was overflowing garbage in many places, saw someone shooting up and massive homeless.

[iris lilies]

I used to love San Francisco. I used to go yearly. The last time I was there about 5 years ago it was so dirty and disgusting that I haven’t been back. I can barely smell anything and the urine smell was awful. There was overflowing garbage in many places, saw someone shooting up and massive homeless.

The Correct term these days is “unhoused.”

Must not put the burden for his status on the victim. Must put the burden on society where it belongs! Apparently “unhoused” means society is not doing its job by providing housing for all, but “ homeless” implies street people are not providing a home for themselves from available resources.

Thank me for your Wokeness lesson today! If you can’t see the difference, well, I can’t say that I do either.

[ApatheticNoMore]

Well the last time I was in San Francisco was (no I correct myself it was 6 years ago), but it was a beautiful, beautiful city. I was like wow, why can't we have nice things?

Whether the house could/should be fixed kinda depends on the structural condition of the house IMO. I mean it is old, and obviously wasn't maintained that well, and that's not a great combination. But I also have no way of knowing much more. And a lot of how badly it *looks* could be fixed with paint.

That's silly about homeless, I mean single words don't convey a whole political philosophy, uh more if they are words for a political philosophy I guess, but they don't' really either. And I thought twitter had length limits. What if they restricted all dialogue to one word.

[jp1]

The Correct term these days is “unhoused.”

Must not put the burden for his status on the victim. Must put the burden on society where it belongs! Apparently “unhoused” means society is not doing its job by providing housing for all, but “ homeless” implies street people are not providing a home for themselves from available resources.

Thank me for your Wokeness lesson today! If you can’t see the difference, well, I can’t say that I do either.

Well, when the housing market is such that a rundown unlivable dump of a house sells for $2M is it any surprise that there are people without housing?

[sweetana3]

San Francisco is the only city I have visited where I felt totally unsafe. Did not feel that way in NYC, Bangkok, Mexico City, Chicago, etc. But SF scared me and this was a long time ago. Used to love it. Was there for weeks in the 70s where the cable cars were actually used for commuting to work and Union Square was a safe place to sit and have lunch.

[iris lilies]

The San Francisco house is perfectly fine structurally. My God it is really nice inside! It has an original Victorian door original floors original plaster and original woodwork.

Our close friends lived in a kitchen that looked very much like that for more than a decade.


The absence or presence of finishes does not indicate in any way structural soundness.


Here are two photos from our own house when we bought it. The first is our living room. The second is the second floor with no staircase in the stairwell because it was removed by the previous Rehabber who got tired of the project and put it up for sale. All of our little houses have been some version of this.


That’s why I was so thrilled by our ( by most standards) modest Hermann House where you could actually move in, use plumbing, a fireplace, and wonder of wonders, use central air conditioning!

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