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It’s been astonishing to witness the loss of quality of life - in numerous way - as our giant tech neighbors continue to expand their footprint with impunity, within a very limited geographic area. The fallout from this massive expansion has been devastating to witness — generally hitting the lowest income earners and small business owners the hardest, but all of us are paying - in countless ways for the negative externalities created and foisted upon us by our tech neighbors.

At least Amazon realized it was prudent to look elsewhere to expand their next major campus site — well outside already heavily impacted Seattle metropolitan region, and even Washington State.

@Corporate Responsibility

This is really just fallout from Bay Area cities not expanding residential development to keep pace with job growth. Can't blame tech companies for making the area expensive to live in when communities fight tooth and nail against any new apartment building.

Let the tech companies expand elsewhere. Some pay employees a $5,000 monthly living stipend in addition to salary. That is a major driver of affordability.
Simply building mausoleum-style apartments does not solve the quality of life issues. There is no room for garbage in the landfill, not enough water for those who are already here, filthy air, horrible traffic and expensive parking, if you can find it. And crime is up.
No more "houses made of ticky tacky that all look just the same" stacked five stories and called apartments. All with noise above, below and all around, smelling the neighbors' cooking, compressed common areas, views into neighboring living space and they look into yours. Is that what you want for yourself YIMBY?

@Robyn

Oh heavens, tall buildings that look the same? I know that the millennials have no place to live around here and a whole generation is being robbed of the opportunity for a middle class existence, but ugh, apartment buildings? Not in my skyline!

And sure, maybe if we actually built high density housing around jobs and next to mass transit, traffic would be positively impacted, but then they'd cast shadows upon the sidewalk for up to an hour a day! I just don't think the city could handle that!

LOL Millenials do not want to live in Mountain View. Really. Even if they work locally, they are very willing to commute to San Francisco. The only people who might want to move here are those with children. I know a child-less Millenial couple who both work in Mountain View, hate living here, and are now moving back to San Francisco. They do not feel they are being robbed of a middle class life. They would rather escape it.

@Millenials?

So you know one millennial couple and therefore that anecdote informs you of the complete situation in mountain view?