I am a single parent who would LOVE to leave my job and stay at home with my children. I have good skills, and know that I could probably create my own in-home business, but finding the resources, money and time to start this is another issue. And alas the issue of health insurance does come up. Fact, not fiction. Property development has increased ten-fold, and it's almost as if the developers are running around the area frothing at the mouth in wait for open land to come up for sale so that they can place over priced condominiums on it.
People say there is a housing shortage here.
Everywhere you go in the Silicon Valley there are housing tracks and condos going up. That is not affordable housing.