I’m sure that’s true as well. This particular part of LA is now largely Chinese, though. I think it must be quite well known in Beijing and highly promoted there. I know some local relators and they say most houses are being bought for cash by Chinese investors or flipped and then sold. Sometimes they stay empty and…

I honestly don’t think affordable housing works for most people. You need a degree to teach which means you have loans. A 36k income max (what it is in my area) for housing is great, but when you have loans, you still can’t afford it and end up living in the cheaper outer areas with roommates anyways.

It’s really brutal in California and the Bay Area in particular because we have shit public transportation, and commuting by car is a fucking nightmare. Have you seen all the issues with BART that have been in the news? It’s old and wasn’t built to transport the number of people taking it each day. The same with…

A 650 square ft teardown house in my neighborhood just went for 5ook. The winning bid had to offer cash. It’s insane. There are whole neighborhoods of empty mansions owned by people in China who are parking their money here. I’m pretty convinced the market will crash again. There is no way anyone in their 30s can buy…

Capitola? Is that supposed to be some shit place to live or something, because the last time I checked it was a beach town and a pretty sweet one at that.

If they could afford to buy a house in Mountain View at all though, they are doing really, really well. The average cost of a home in that area is $1.3M.

We need a large scale nationwide strike in this country.

This article is very timely. I’m in school right now working on my teaching credential & masters (the plan is to be a school librarian). I’m from California and I know that the town I grew up in priced out many of the local teachers over two decades ago (and the ones who do live in town have rich spouses). My plan for…

Here’s the problem- Hillary is a corporate tool. I fully plan on voting for her if she wins and it’s her or Trump/Cruz. But it’s a giant douche/turd sandwich situation, as far as I can see from the K-12 education standpoint.

Vote, people. Get these corporate tools out of office. ALL of them. Take the country back. Support a union. Don’t fall into any Trump traps either - that processed cheese wrapper full of smegma is no more qualified than the douche nozzles already giving away the country for a promise that their corporate cronies won’t…

As a former academic forced into another profession due to the lack of living-wage jobs in teaching/higher ed, I sympathize with this.

My friend was looking to buy a house in Mountain View. They found a house they wanted but they were outbid by $160K. Yep, $160K over the asking price.

The craziest part of the NPR report was that it said Palo Alto teachers are well paid, most making about 100K.

Yep, my SO is staying late to watch a game tonight, he’ll be grading all weekend (as will I), he sponsors multiple clubs, stays after school to tutor students. It’s lawyer hours for janitor pay.

“Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little changes, we need gigantic, monumental changes. Schools should be palaces. The competition for the best teachers should be fierce. They should be making six-figure salaries. Schools should be incredibly expensive for government and…

the scary thing is that this isn’t a new trend, it’s been happening for over a decade. and the real issue is that the most powerful people in these communities don’t really care because they send their kids to private schools anyway. the people who’s families depend on public schools in places like palo alto are…

I went to a VERY liberal college with co-ed bathrooms, showers, etc. Nobody really cared and it honestly made us all better friends. I think it’s shaped a lot of my views today.

Totally random story: I worked for a company once where my employees were on the first floor, and the second floor housed a large energy company’s customer service dept. This one woman would come downstairs from there (bypassing their huge renovated restroom) to come downstairs to our old 60's 3 holer and proceed to…

I feel this way, too. I don’t love public restrooms to begin with, but I know that women (cis and trans) aren’t going to harm me, statistically. I don’t know this about cis men. #notallmen and everything, but their track record isn’t good in terms of assault. In fact, I was sexually assaulted in a bathroom at a…

But I have explosively horrific shits too