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by jskonhovd
4112 days ago
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While you all are enjoying your high rents, I would like to brag about my hometown Memphis, TN. We just got some hype in the WSJ. "In a nod to the youngsters, the survey found that the top markets offering “the right live/work/play environment” for millennials were Nashville, Brooklyn, Portland, and Memphis."[1] In all seriousness, I think its a shame that SF can't keep up with housing. It's a tough problem. I don't envy the people in Government that have to balance all the different interests. Then again, I would hate it if the majority of my paycheck went to my rent. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/03/11/u-s-regained-top-s... |
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For one, there's the freedom to sprawl, while San Francisco proper is constrained to a much smaller geographic space. That alone skews a lot of the comparisons.
I was reading this today, and it struck a chord especially after yesterday's "rent in SF" article, and while I feel that the Houston approach is indeed the enlightened one, I don't know that it's appropriate for every particular place.
http://joshblackman.com/blog/2015/03/15/the-economist-housto...
Beyond that, of course, as much as it pains me to knock my home town, we left Memphis because of the rapid rise in crime, and that hasn't seemed to improve terribly. Since we've left, they've apparently done a fantastic job of buggering up the schools.
The draw of home pulls strong on me, and I frequently contemplate moving back, especially with the craft brew scene producing what I believe are some of the best beers in the nation (especially High Cotton), but between the things I've already mentioned and the oppressive summers, it's a tough sell.