I lived in Arlington, VA for 3.5 years...leaving last year. If you stand around Arlington, you note a tremendous amount of wealth (houses, jobs, and cars). The problem is....you can’t afford to live there if you make less than $35k a year. So you end up living way out of the district and you don’t get any appreciation of the local community in Arlington. The area desperately needed people to work at McDonalds, Starbucks, grocery operations, etc....but none of them could afford the $1200 a month for 2-bedroom apartments (the bottom level of quality).
I have no idea how you’d live on $79k in the SF Bay Area. That would be poverty level.
“The area desperately needed people to work at McDonalds, Starbucks, grocery operations, etc....but none of them could afford the $1200 a month for 2-bedroom apartments (the bottom level of quality).”
That’s why there is Seven Corners.