My Postdoc advisor at Berkeley was a single mom raising 3 kids as a grad student at UCSC. It definitely wasn't easy, but she lived in Faculty/Student Housing (subsidized) and managed to make it work (later, she worked on the industrial version of the human genome project and eventually become a prof at Berkeley).
This was in mid-90s, at a time when Santa Cruz was already getting expensive (the story in the article is nothing new!)
I remember living in a house in Santa Cruz in '93 and seeing how much the owners paid for it- $250K, which seemed absurd (houses where I grew up were $100K). Now that house would sell for $1.5M.
This was in mid-90s, at a time when Santa Cruz was already getting expensive (the story in the article is nothing new!)
I remember living in a house in Santa Cruz in '93 and seeing how much the owners paid for it- $250K, which seemed absurd (houses where I grew up were $100K). Now that house would sell for $1.5M.