[kkowalczyk]

1. Shortage of housing is even worse near Google campus than in SF

2. Angry mob or your opinions should not dictate where people choose to live.

I could offer many suggestions as to how you should live YOUR life to better suit MY goal and ideas, but I don't because that would be stupid.

You should choose a place to live that suits YOU the best and you should offer the same curtesy to others.

The "occupy Google bus" movement is straight-up bullying.

[ecspike]

Even with the few new construction projects happening in MTV, it's not enough to house everyone. Apartments go incredibly fast.

Google employees are competing with all the other big companies in the South Bay(EBay/Apple/Facebook amongst others) plus the yearly influx of interns that takes a bunch of apartments off the market for 6 months at a time.

[yetanotherphd]

You are right, it is precisely bullying. As is typical of people in far left political organizations, these protestors are using the alleged oppression of themselves and others, as an excuse to bully other people, in this case nerds.

[gress]

Yeah - people shouldn't complain - they should just shut up and get a job that pays them a 6 figure salary and provides an air conditioned luxury coach to take them to work.

[simoncion]

Edit: Oh, heh. I mis-read your statement. Regardless, I'll keep my original comment below. Do with it what you will.

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1) 6-figures is middle-of-the-road when it comes to meeting living expenses in SV. You will never own an urban house (and will likely not own a suburban house) on that salary in the area.

2) Have you, like, ever ridden in a big bus before? They're pretty nausea-inducing and tend to get stuck in the same traffic that every other ground vehicle gets stuck in. Their only advantages are traffic reduction and (maybe, if you can fight the nausea) the ability to catch up on email during your commute in.

3) I did the commute-down-the-peninsula thing for a couple of years. It was also pretty miserable and not very cheap (but far cheaper than owning, parking, and maintaining a car). I can't argue that Caltrain is worse than these buses, but I can argue that they're both pretty miserable.

[gress]

I'm not really sure what to make of this!

[simoncion]

You're not sure what to make of what?

[gress]

Well if you misread my comment but don't tell us what you thought it said, I can't put your response in context.