Rent can be as high as $3k a month for a one bedroom apartment. Normal working people can't afford housing.People are living in RVs parked on city streets because rents and home prices have risen so high.
Mountain View, California, is home to Google and Silicon Valley's tech boom. Rents and home prices have soared, and hundreds of people have been forced to live in recreational vehicles parked on the city's streets. This week on Decrypted, we explore how the rising cost of living is fueling tension between homeowners and vehicle residents, resulting in a parking ban on RVs.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...s-van-dwellers
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Locals fight with people parking "recreational vehicles" next to their property. People live in these RVs, sometimes they do rude things, playing music too loud, lounging on people's lawns.
If you could make 3 times your salary, would you live in an RV in Silicon Valley?