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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (823615)	12/18/2014 7:58:03 PM
From: zax	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578006

>> Come out to Northern California, where gas is more expensive, and so is real estate. There is no middle class here, and you can't blame the right-wing for that. You think it is expensive in Northern California, you should see New York. It is stupid expensive there now. A company tried to recruit me to move to Long Island recently. They offered me a huge raise, but it still wasn't enough. It would have required close to a six figure raise over my current salary in order for me to maintain the very same standard of living. It is certainly mostly due to the obscene cost of real estate and the real estate taxes that accompany this. Brooklyn Is the Least Affordable Place in America gawker.com The beautiful borough of Brooklyn, New York is home to almost 2.6 million people, and none of them can afford to live there. Of the 475 counties analyzed by RealtyTrac through October, 98 areas weren't as affordable compared with the average level for the period starting in January 2000, the Irvine, California-based data company said in a report today. Brooklyn, New York, where a resident would need to devote 98 percent of the median income to afford the payment on a median-priced home of $615,000, was the least-affordable market, followed by San Francisco and Manhattan. </snip> Read the rest here: gawker.com