A lot of people are afraid, from every walk of life and demographic around the Bay Area.<p>The poor and working class who are the lifeblood of the city are realistically worried about being priced out if they don&#x27;t own already.  New tech workers are completely unable to break in to even moderate land ownership to lock in cost-of-living, and experience the same. And forget about our critical social contributors like teachers, who are forced to depend on another income to fund their work.<p>I know several Googlers fleeing the bay out of fear.  It doesn&#x27;t matter how much money they have or don&#x27;t have, they have come to the conclusion they can&#x27;t and don&#x27;t want to fight an infinitely growing market that absorbs every raise, bonus, or stock grant back into rent.  Got a new RSU grant? Great, your landlord just raised the rent by $20,000 over the year.   Got a big bonus?  Sorry, that down payment now needs to be double what it was last year... try again next year!<p>What I sense is fear everywhere, that is driving greed.  A runaway market means you can never have enough to overcome a future where you will be priced out.  This feedback loop drives land owners and workers into and endless cycle of misery thats making the Bay a very undesirable place to live.<p>The tech buses are the most visible thing to blame, but ironically these are liking making commutes slightly more tolerable than they would be without them.