This is becoming increasingly true of LA too. Unless you're rent controlled and have been there for a while the price for an apartment is further and further out of reach.
There's construction everywhere but the price of living in those new buildings is even more than the increasingly expensive older areas and a lot of new construction has begun with what seems like little to no consideration for its impact on traffic.
Perhaps developers and the city expect people to use the limited metro system and other public transit but few people, in practice do.
I can't be that upset though, my wife and I are leaving for the suburbs soon with no plans to come back.
There's a lot happening in LA in terms of the tech scene, but it's not enough to outweigh the overwhelming cost of attempting to put down roots there (home ownership is a largely unobtainable goal, insurance of all kinds is expensive, every neighborhood suffers from traffic congestion and on and on).
We've been rent controlled for 3 years or we wouldn't be able to be here now. I know one person that owns a place and everyone I know who's wanted to start a family has left.
There's construction everywhere but the price of living in those new buildings is even more than the increasingly expensive older areas and a lot of new construction has begun with what seems like little to no consideration for its impact on traffic.
Perhaps developers and the city expect people to use the limited metro system and other public transit but few people, in practice do.
I can't be that upset though, my wife and I are leaving for the suburbs soon with no plans to come back.
There's a lot happening in LA in terms of the tech scene, but it's not enough to outweigh the overwhelming cost of attempting to put down roots there (home ownership is a largely unobtainable goal, insurance of all kinds is expensive, every neighborhood suffers from traffic congestion and on and on).