What’s better than a private shuttle with WiFi, paid for by your company, that takes you to and from work everyday?
What’s better than a private shuttle with WiFi, paid for by your company, that takes you to and from work everyday?
Not having a commute, that’s what.
But in San Francisco, this luxury comes at a very steep price. Rental listing startup Radpad recently crunched the numbers to see how much it’d cost tech workers to live within walking distance of their companies. Teaming up with
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Though office and residential rents are high across all of San Francisco, Radpad’s analysis focused on apartment prices in the South of Market area, or SOMA, where Google $GOOGL, Twitter $TWTR and Zynga, among others, have their offices. For each company, median rents are based on units within a half-mile radius of the office.
These numbers almost make Muni tolerable.
