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by atcole
3162 days ago
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His proposal is two-fold, for those who want a summary. 1) Build better transit to connect areas that are affordable (or areas at all i.e. San Jose / Oakland) to central business districts 2) To accomplish this by creating a centralized governing authority for the whole Bay Area. I wonder if this kind of consolidation has ever happened before. Did New York City absorb areas that it now controls as it evolved, or did the parties agree afterward to some symbiotic relationship? |
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What surprises me is that there aren't more startups headquartered in Oakland. Sure, it's a bit more hassle for people in SF to get out there, but you're going against the flow of traffic, so the commute is pleasant. And my suspicion is there are a lot of senior people living in the East Bay (or even further out). People who've moved on from small apartments and roommates and and have their own places, or have a family, or want cheaper rent... whatever it is. I suspect there's enough of those people who'd love to be getting on and off at 19th St Oakland and working down near Lake Merritt, rather than commuting into the city. I have a senior engineer friend, living in Berkeley, who said he'd take a $20k pay cut not to have to commute into SF. And that's not even a bad commute.
If I was starting up, looking to save some money, and wanting to hire experienced developers, I would definitely be setting up in Oakland.