Posts tagged with Places
The Limits of Fictional World-Building
In the first scene of the movie Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets , there's a handshake between astronauts—hailing from America and China—as one spaceship docks to a larger space station. Subsequently, as the years…
You Don’t Deserve a House in the Bay Area
Time to check-in on the Bay Area housing crisis in 2016. ... Yep, still as bad as ever. The latest controversy is that, contrary to silly ideas back in 2015 that two working professionals could afford to own a home in…
A Fancy European Road Trip
My wife and I just got back from a week-long vacation in picturesque Scandinavia. To be honest, it was not one of the destinations either of us ever had on our list of places to list, especially during the time…
The Cafe Workspace
Our team just had an offsite brainstorming meeting at the Workshop Cafe in the heart of the financial district in San Francisco. It is this neat little coffee shop attached to a spacious co-working space, with a mobile website that…
Vancouver’s Housing Problem
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. I grew up there as a child and teenager. It was—and is—a beautiful city, one that encompassed all that was friendly and welcoming in the Canadian spirit, but also featured nice weather and a…
Salary Requirements for a House in Silicon Valley
Kim-Mai Cutler is quickly developing a reputation as a journalist in technology who provides well-researched commentary on the industry as a whole, particularly around the issues of housing perpetrated by the current tech boom. Her piece on the effect of…
