The cost of living in Half Moon Bay—from an LA perspective

The LA Times has a nice review of the turmoil surrounding Sid McCausland’s resignation in order to move to Alaska, where the living is cheap and cold.  Most of it you’ve heard before, but it’s interesting to read it from the perspective of a community that never really trusted open space as a value.

Down at Original Johnny’s, the Main Street diner where Half Moon Bay’s old guard presides over the round table in the back, they don’t believe McCausland is leaving because he has been priced out. They don’t endorse his policy fixes. They’d rather not admit to any common ground with their former councilman if they had a choice.

The Times story discusses the opposition’s idea that we can build our way out of the cost of housing in the Bay Area, without examining whether it can be done.