[yapcguy]

Google could open an office in Oakland given that there are enough employees there to merit arranging free transport by bus.

Googlers could live closer to work. Why would you want to sit on a bus for two hours everyday when you could live in Mountainview and cycle to work?

Or Google could buy up houses and apartments and turn them into corporate housing for their workers.

[adamnemecek]

> Or Google could buy up houses and apartments and turn them into corporate housing for their workers.

How is that a solution? Won't it only force out more people?

[dkuntz2]

Why would it make sense for Google to open an office in Oakland given it's current huge campus in Mountain View?

[eli_gottlieb]

Google even tried proposing to build more housing in Mountain View. The town council shot them down.