== I Do Not Have $1 Million = By Mark Morford

[madokie]

Ergo, I cannot buy a delicious home in San Francisco. Ergo, I am screwed forever

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/06/15/notes061507.DTL&nl=fix

I did not get in on the ground floor of Google. I did not grab 50,000 shares of Flickr before it was bought for $8 bazillion by Yahoo, thus instantly affording me a fleet of new diamond-encrusted Aston Martins and a set of solid-gold teeth.

I do currently own a nice fistful of Apple stock which I bought at 17 (!) and which is now worth a small carload of iPhones, but in this ridiculous and demeaning and utterly depressing San Francisco housing market this equates to enough money to buy roughly 9 square feet of a former meth lab in an industrial loft in the outer Mission.

(There is some good news: I plan to release my first book sometime in late 2019, after which I will quickly make numerous millions of dollars after Oprah has me on to tell me how my soul-altering tome caused her to forsake skanky celebrity interviews in favor of yoga and cold sake and sex toys and books that aren't just painfully maudlin coming-of-age, rite-of-passage examinations of oppressed sexually abused lesbian sisters from broken raging alcoholic families from the South.)

But until that time, if I want to live in San Francisco, if I wish to have some semblance of space and hope and urban love with enough money left over for Peet's and good wine and relatively decent porn, I must do what all commoners like me must do: I gotta rent. ...

[madokie]

1. Kick

[DFW]

2. Yeah, but at least you get to rent in San Francisco!

The question is whether you'd rather own in Peoria or rent in San Francisco.

There are probably some great homes in Peoria for comparatively little money,
but if you already live in the Bay Area, I'm not sure the creature comforts
of central Illinois would be enough to lure you away.......