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In reply to the discussion: 'Million Dollar Shack' documentary looks at Bay Area's insane housing market [View all]CountAllVotes
(20,879 posts)15. Who wants to live in a place that is a ghost town?
The video makes the whole scene down there totally unpalatable to me. Just wait, you'll see a mass exodus when this bubble pops and yes it will pop or another big quake will hit and they'll run away just like after the Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989.
Sad reality and what makes me even sadder is that the natives are about all gone. My last living relative sold their house just last month in fact and said relative was also a native of Oakland.
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CountAllVotes
Oct 2015
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This has been happening in San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, and Richmond since the 90's.
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#1
I know how bad it is thousands of black people have relocated to Sacramento, Stockton, Pittsburg,
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#3
Have you seen the Temecula neighborhood lately in North Oakland, almost all of the black people
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#7
As a life long resident of SF I thought Frank Jordan was bad ED Lee is the worst
kimbutgar
Oct 2015
#18
Boy has he worked over Filmore, Lakeview, Bayview, and Potrero Hill neighborhoods.
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#26
The neighborhood of high priced parking. You can use a credit card to park there.
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#30
I drove though that area recently and thought I was lost I didn't recognize it anymore
kimbutgar
Oct 2015
#33
The housing bubble is one of the reasons we are headed for another major economic collapse.
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#5
I still have family in the town, and the city of Oakland has attempted to purchase my family's
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#16
If you cross the Golden Gate Bridge you will find out that Marin County is worse than
JRLeft
Oct 2015
#23
One of my colleagues just sold her grandma's teardown near Presidio
Sen. Walter Sobchak
Oct 2015
#36