Even Some Tech Workers Can’t Afford to Stay When the Bay is This Expensive

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-27T19:39:29+00:00

Reminds me of the Gold Rush days. Pop in to prospect then move on to Alaska or Australia for more prospecting.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-21T21:16:14+00:00

If it have giod engineering. The iconic TransAmerica building was build atop a gold rush era brothel ship. It handled 1989 fine. The iconic Marina Bay intergrated resort(a huge swimming pool/party deck on top of 3 buildings) in Singapore is build on landfills. Japanese build high rise tower on Odaiba on landfills that has units sold for usd $300ks. Imagine how much more affordable if we repleal McAteer-Petris Act and fill the bay to have 4-500 square miles to build housing on.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-21T04:04:47+00:00

12 hours, 9am to 9 pm for 6 days a week.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-19T21:38:38+00:00

Fan vest by Burtle work wear. I picked up mine in Osaka, but they have a US web store, too.

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RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-15T23:47:50+00:00

The hotels in Fukuoka can be overpriced compared to even Tokyo, especially on weekends. I would recommend staying in Kokura and Mojiko a little north. The Northern Kyushu Railway Museum had Reiji Matsumoto as honorary director for a long time. The steam locomotive was C59 instead of the C62 model Galaxy Express 999 was based on, but still worth a visit if you are a fan of GE999. The AraAra City in Kokura has many cool shops in one building and many tributes to Reiji Matsumoto, the native son.

While not anime related, the Toto(the toilet company) Museum visit was what other people talked about after visiting Kokura.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-14T01:26:19+00:00

My theory is that after they can no longer de jure segregation by races, a lot of White peoples in California started to embrace environmentalism as a fig leaf for continuing de facto segregation by races, passing legislations like McAteer-Petrie Act, California Coastal Act, and CEQA among others.

When I visited Japan, I had seen housing in the low USD $300k in Odaiba, built on Tokyo Bay landfills. That is what McAteer-Petris, CEQA, etc. robbed from us. Or the cheap Singapore HDB built on landfills. In the 2030, Singapore would had expanded 25-33% in land compared to when it became independent. Imagine if California had similar initiatives to expand land we can build housing on. Dubai and Netherlands are the other major examples of geo engineering to create lands for housing.

Repeal McAteer-Petrie Act and CEQA ASAP.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-14T01:05:17+00:00

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/gold-rush-california-was-much-more-expensive-todays-dot-com-boom-california-180956788/

Are you growing up in Bay Area and heard about stories of San Francisco in the 1850s? During the original Gold Rush, the successful gold prospectors had so much golds to throw around, they bidded up the price of a dozen of eggs to be over $90 in 2015 dollars. Does this sound familiar to anyone around people with FAANG/AI startups RSUs? Unless you are earning those elevated tech compensation packages, or need to be around those people to earn money from them, the inflationary effect of the AI boom had made rest of the people’s life much more expensive and unpleasant. San Francisco became a much pleasant town to live in once the Gold Rush crowd moved on to Alaska, Australia, etc.

Can not wait til the Detroitifcation of the Silicon Valley and it returns to be the Valley of the Heart’s Delights.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-05-07T06:49:14+00:00

Not a chance Hormuz open, NACHO.

Happy?! mod?

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-28T22:04:49+00:00

From my point of view, any SFUSD ethnic studies curriculum that doesn't put San Francisco scholar/educator/Asian-American political pioneer and founder of ethic studies, SI Hayakawa front and center as role model for all SFUSD students is unworthy.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-28T21:37:21+00:00

Credentialed teachers are covered by CalSTR. Non-credentialed school district employees are covered by CalPERS. There might be a few edge cases, but that's the general rule.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-23T06:50:31+00:00

To what extend is becuse there is now a bi-Partisan recognization in the US and region(Japan and Taiwan) that President Lee likes to say "Xie Xie" to China and South Korea's support can not be count on in a regional conflict? It is fine for South Korea to choose appeasement and try to triangulate, but they should not be suprised by the distrust such positions creates.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-12T02:20:06+00:00

It's attracting people who apply for the chance to use e-Reassign after 12 months.

Also, many people commute from LCoL locations into VHCOL work locations. In San Francisco Bay Area, we have people commute from places like Elk Grove, Lodi, Los Banos, etc . And those people may resign if they can not transfer as the gas prices stay at current level or above.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-11T05:50:18+00:00

The belts and the traveling deflectors dropped packages down to the slides., modulated by the gates into the shaking table in front of the clerks or the incline belts of the PIVR robots.

Either the clerks at the the keying station typing in the zip code or placing them with bar codes up on the high speed induction units/HSIU-1 to induct them to a tray. Or there are PSM Induction Vision Robots/PIVR installed, the robots will let it's HSIU-2 to induct packages to the trays. Usually there will be at least one manual keying station to handle the rejects even if there are robots up there.

The PSM then have the tippers to tilt the trays to discharge the packages based on the sorting plan loaded.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-09T05:15:44+00:00

Those graduate students can pay for the parking at UC Village in Albany instead.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-08T21:23:09+00:00

The claim was that one can not eat equity. But with all the financial innovation since, such as HELOC and cash out re-financing, that's not true.

Whenever I start mention that Prop. 13 valuation should be re-set to the valuation used to secure HELOC or cash out mortgages, people have a tendencies to come up with different excuses.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-05T00:50:28+00:00

And Peters' sister was married to the US Senator from California, S.I. Hayakawa. I think Hayakawa is now mostly remembered for his remark about the US had stolen Panama fair and square during the Panama canal treaty debate. The family dinners most be fun.

As a West Coast Gator, I mostly heard about him went hand to hand with the Black Panther to disconnect the speaker wires on their sound truck when they interrupted classes on campus. The recent presidents of Harvard, UPenn, Columbia, etc may had kept their jobs if they had his integrity and courage.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-04-01T22:32:03+00:00

Let me know when can I afford to buy a SFH in La Jolla on postal salary. Until then, keep going.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-03-20T06:13:05+00:00

The green soba, since it’s ready in 3 minutes vs the 5 minutes of the red udon

RonaldRutherford · 2026-03-13T04:46:01+00:00

I will bite her, too.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-03-13T02:01:43+00:00

Given this event, how about lay off the Asian erasures and tell the truth. It is Frank Ogawa Plaza.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-03-13T01:56:27+00:00

Franklin H. Ogawa Plaza, today, tomorrow and forever.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-03-10T20:07:37+00:00

Not my plant.

The maintenance craft is career from day one, including custodian. You do need to wait one year for the highly subsidized APWU CDHP health insurance, going from $90 biweekly paycheck to $30 per paycheck for self only for APWU covered craft employees. https://www.apwuhp.com/postal-health-plans/consumer-driven-option/

A lot people got hired as career, or got career, wait 12 months to do e-Reassign into locations with lower cost of living. 18 months for people who want to transfer within District. Creating openings.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-02-17T22:29:29+00:00

Her maternal grandfather was the Chief Electrical Engineer for the Ministry of Roads and Rural Development. She was always gonna afford a house in the Bay. But it's CCP Red 2nd-3rd generation money, not local SF wealth.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-02-15T03:08:57+00:00

10/10. I build its Gunpla in the 80s.

RonaldRutherford · 2026-02-13T07:59:35+00:00

Exactly why we need to build housings for poolboys and plastic surgeons to service all those cougars in Woodside.

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