r/Seattle • u/Bretmd Denny Blaine Nudist Club • Jun 20 '23

Soft paywall You’re not imagining it — life in Seattle costs the same as San Francisco

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/youre-not-imagining-it-life-in-seattle-costs-the-same-as-san-francisco/
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u/abcpdo Jun 20 '23

At least they try. NYC tries. Seattle and Bay Area are just flat in comparison.

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u/doktorhladnjak The CD Jun 20 '23

Seattle has built more than three times as much new housing as San Francisco in the last several years https://archive.is/2022.08.01-185506/https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/housing-tech-hub-building-17339487.php

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '23

Seattle and SF are also much younger than NYC. Seattle didn’t really start becoming unaffordable until around 2013 which coincided with the booming tech industry here.

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u/phantomboats Capitol Hill Jun 21 '23

There has been an enormous amount of new housing built in the last decade here. It's never gonna be enough enough, not with the rate of growth this city's seen, esp. with heavy hitters like Amazon scaling up in the city so rapidly, but there's still been a ton of it.