Housing
Comparing Bay Area Housing Prices to the World's Most Gorgeous Places
For what it costs to live in San Francisco, you might as well relocate to an unbelievably stunning Mediterranean island.
If there’s anything to make you reevaluate living in America’s tech hub, it’s this map from NeighborhoodX comparing Bay Area housing prices to those in the world’s most beautiful, exotic locales.
The yet-to-launch real-estate service—partly run by Constantine Valhouli, the guy who mapped New York’s musical references—lined up market rates for two-bedrooms in San Francisco and Oakland with neighborhoods in San Sebastian, Cannes, St. John’s, Antigua, and elsewhere. For what it costs to live in North Beach, for example, you could afford a fancy white-stone cave on an Aegean archipelago. NeighborhoodX lays out the dismal facts: