<story><title>I hate living in my tiny house</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_nomad</author><text>This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.</text></item><item><author>orasis</author><text>...combined with a lifestyle choice problem.  Hundreds of millions of other Americans do fine not living in the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Article&amp;#x27;s conclusions are dubious.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We need ... different housing tech that can lower construction costs&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re paying ~$1,600 a month for a shoebox apartment, it&amp;#x27;s not because you need construction technology. It is a housing-policy problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>linguae</author><text>Leaving the Bay Area is an appealing prospect in order to save on housing costs, but there are two issues that some people would need to consider in order to make that move:&lt;p&gt;1.  There are some specialized types of jobs in the software industry where there are only a small handful of employers and where most of those employers are located in Silicon Valley.  There are some areas in the software industry, such as web development and enterprise software, where there are plenty of jobs outside Silicon Valley and similar tech hubs.  Plenty of businesses need custom applications, and the Microsoft software stack of Windows Server, SQL Server, .NET, Azure, and other products is commonly used outside of Silicon Valley, which seems to be focused on Linux.  But suppose you work in the area of compilers, or you&amp;#x27;re an operating systems developer.  The chances of moving to a place that isn&amp;#x27;t a tech hub and finding a compiler or operating systems development job is lower than finding a web development or Microsoft enterprise app development position.  My line of work is in research in systems and AI, and it would be difficult for me to me to find similar work in most American metro areas outside of the Bay Area, Seattle, Austin, and New York, all of which (except for Austin) are expensive.&lt;p&gt;2.  The Bay Area is famous for its acceptance of diverse cultures, lifestyles, and worldviews.  The Bay Area&amp;#x27;s cosmopolitan atmosphere is one of my favorite aspects of living in the area.  However, cosmopolitan urban areas in the United States tend to be expensive.  New York, Boston, Seattle, and Los Angeles are still expensive places, even if they are not as expensive as the Bay Area.  An exception to the correlation between cosmopolitanism and expense is Sacramento, a very diverse place which by California standards is also still affordable despite rising housing prices.  I would not mind living there, but it&amp;#x27;s a very long commute to Silicon Valley, and there are not many jobs in my subfield of systems and AI research in the Sacramento area.  If I couldn&amp;#x27;t live in or near a diverse, cosmopolitan area, my next preference would be a tourist town with a nice, laid-back atmosphere, such as many of the towns on the Central Coast of California.  But, once again, those areas lack the jobs I want.</text></comment>
<story><title>I hate living in my tiny house</title><url>https://www.fastcompany.com/90407740/why-i-hate-living-in-my-tiny-house</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>i_am_nomad</author><text>This is a very valid point that almost nobody makes, and I still cannot understand why not. People screaming about how unaffordable the Bay Area is, seem to feel like living elsewhere would be some kind of death sentence.</text></item><item><author>orasis</author><text>...combined with a lifestyle choice problem.  Hundreds of millions of other Americans do fine not living in the Bay Area.</text></item><item><author>fennecfoxen</author><text>Article&amp;#x27;s conclusions are dubious.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; We need ... different housing tech that can lower construction costs&lt;p&gt;If you&amp;#x27;re paying ~$1,600 a month for a shoebox apartment, it&amp;#x27;s not because you need construction technology. It is a housing-policy problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smudgymcscmudge</author><text>“and give up on my dream of being a tech billionaire? no thanks”. Also popular is “the bay area has one of the greatest collection of minds ever assembled in the history of the world”. If they are really that smart and money flows so freely, then they should have no problem solving this little problem.</text></comment>