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This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Alexandria Belton, 33, who is in the market for a home in the Bay Area. She’s been priced out mainly due to the AI boom. The following has been edited for length and clarity.My fiancé and I started looking to buy…
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Raymond Zeng, 24, a Meta software engineer living in the San Francisco Bay area. It has been edited for length and clarity.I’ve been told by many of my friends that my living situation is very “Spartan.” I don’t own a car,…
Act fast, or risk being relegated to the “permanent underclass.” That’s the latest worry reverberating around the techosphere. Loading audio narration… It’s no secret that AI is creating massive amounts of wealth for some. The startup space is flush with cash, the AI labs are doling out large salaries to…
I recently moved from a beach town in San Diego to a neighborhood in the South Bay Area. In other words, I went from daily strolls by the sea to suburban sidewalks. It’s been a … transition, to say the least. Loading audio narration… However, it turns out my new…
Nick Burns was making six figures in the US and still finding it hard to save. Loading audio narration… Burns, now 35, grew up in Connecticut and served in the Navy. It was during that time that he first visited Singapore.Impressed by the country’s clean and fast public transport system,…
You could own the birthplace of OpenAI — if you have $1.5 million to spare.When OpenAI first launched in 2015, its founders, including Sam Altman, did not have an office and primarily worked out of cofounder Greg Brockman’s apartment in the Mission. That very loft apartment on the upper levels…
