San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
I pay about that for rent - it&#x27;s the most I&#x27;ve ever paid for housing by a long shot, and it regularly freaks me out.  I just can&#x27;t get used to it.  The thing that gets me is that I&#x27;m barely paying the property taxes on the place I rent.  The landlord isn&#x27;t gouging me.<p>It&#x27;s just the way it is here.  Housing is so expensive because everyone wants to be here, and for good reason.  This is the most thriving technical community in the entire world.  We live different lifestyles as a result.  It&#x27;s not better or worse, just different.<p>It seems like there are a fair amount of people who come for 2-3 years and then go back to wherever it is that they came from, but I think the amount of people who actually leave the bay area for tech jobs in Seattle&#x2F;Portland&#x2F;LA is pretty slim.  I&#x27;m sure it happens, but if there&#x27;s an exodus happening I for one am completely unaware of it.