San Francisco

That San Francisco, ground zero of the second tech - this time private (and currently bursting) - bubble, has a housing market that is "just a little frothy" is no surprise to anyone, but even we had to chuckle when we saw this billboard making the twitter rounds.

As Marketwatch notes, real estate is so frothy in the San Francisco Bay Area that a new development in the city’s Lake Merced neighborhood felt the need to advertise its townhomes on a billboard as million-dollar deals - get in now while the price is right!

In an open letter to San Francisco's mayor Ed Lee, tech entrepreneur Justin Keller said he is "outraged" that wealthy workers have to see people in pain and despair. As The Guardian reports,

The latest cultural altercation between San Francisco’s tech workers and the city’s impoverished population finds one such 'entitled' citizen declaring the homeless are "riff raff" whose "pain, struggle and despair" shouldn’t have to be endured by "wealthy" people commuting to work.

Is the shotgun starter home the answer to San Francisco’s famously desperate housing crisis?

Joel Kotkin suggests just that in a recent report and follow-up interview with SF Weekly. In so doing, he makes the classic suburbanist mistake of ignoring what lies below the building.

The author's garden in San Francisco was created for Good Will Toward Men and (hopefully) encapsulates the Christmas Spirit all year round.

San Francisco is the top sports area in the world today.