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Royce On San Francisco - by Scott Alexander

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On housing prices: The San Franciscans at this moment, living in their rag palaces, or renting them at figures that would have sounded possible in the Arabian Nights . . . seemed more like madmen than ever. A correspondent of the New York Post gives with a half-serious fury and contempt an amusing account of the landlords of San Francisco: “The people of San Francisco are mad, stark mad. A dozen times or more, during the last few weeks, I have been taken by the arm by some of the millionaires — so they call themselves, I call them madmen - of San Francisco, looking wondrously dirty and out…

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