Mary Jo Bowling | Vox Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. 2019-03-06T10:41:47+00:00 https://www.vox.com/authors/mary-jo-bowling-2/rss https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/vox_logo_rss_light_mode.png?w=150&h=100&crop=1 Mary Jo Bowling <![CDATA[Ten Things You Need to Know About SF’s Super Bowl City]]> https://www.vox.com/2016/1/29/11589200/ten-things-you-need-to-know-about-sfs-super-bowl-city 2019-03-06T05:41:27-05:00 2016-01-29T08:57:32-05:00

By now, we all know that while Super Bowl 50 will be played in Santa Clara on February 7, the party will be in San Francisco the week before. But what will the celebration entail? We went to the Super Bowl 50 Host Committee to find out. Today we bring you behind-the-scenes details and insider intel that will help you navigate the sports-themed city within a city that’s rapidly going up along the Embarcadero. It officially opens to the public on Saturday, January 30 and closes on Sunday, February 7; you’ll want to read this before you visit.

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]]> Mary Jo Bowling <![CDATA[Study Concludes the Obvious: SF Tech Workers Have Trouble Affording Housing]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/9/30/11619082/study-concludes-the-obvious-sf-tech-workers-have-trouble-affording 2019-03-06T05:41:47-05:00 2015-09-30T15:11:07-04:00

In findings that will surprise very few, a study commissioned by the apartment search company RadPad and recruiting service Anthology says that making rent is tough even for well-paid tech engineers.

Specifically, the study looked at what engineers at places like Uber, Airbnb, Square, Google and Salesforce make and how much of their after-tax salaries they have to shell out to live close to their offices (they used the median one-bedroom prices within a .5 mile radius of company headquarters). They detail their findings in a graphic and in a blog provocatively titled: “Employees are paying THIS much to live next to unicorns in SF?”

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