The Bay Area is Too Expensive But So What?

What, haven’t you heard about the Bay Area’s outrageous cost of housing and California’s crazy high tax structure? You could expand anywhere in the United States, go where the average price of a decent home is $250,000 or less, which might be just the down payment in the Bay Area! Then again, if you were to move perhaps most of your employees would opt to remain in the Bay Area and then where would you be? Stripe, valued at $35 billion just announced the signing of 421,000 square feet of office space at South San Francisco’s Oyster Point.