Glenn Kelman Quotes

The bad news in our most cosmopolitan and vibrant cities is that many middle-class people can no longer afford to live in 'middle-class' school districts.

Neither of my parents live in Oakland anymore. They both got priced out.

I like San Francisco, but I don't think I'd want to work in Palo Alto. It seems like a pretty rough commute. In many ways, I think New York has a lot of things the West Coast doesn't have.

I am working hard to ensure that working families can continue to afford to live in our city.

Living in Maryland, I saw that the opportunities were far greater in California than back home.

In actuality, California could be a wonderful place to live. In fact, if you're highly educated and ambitious, you can do quite well here while enjoying the sun and the fun. The only problem: California will then blame you for your success and recommend that all your cash be removed from you.

[The congressman visited Boston.] We often wonder how things are made so cheap among the Yankees. Come here and you will see women doing men's work, and happy and cheerful as the day is long, and why not?

A Dominican kitchen worker in New York City can make more money than a Dominican doctor working in the Dominican Republic. Why should anyone want to stay?

There was a time, a few decades ago, when the cost of living did not vary all that much from city to city. Since then, as places like New York, San Francisco and Seattle have been hit with skyrocketing rents and home prices, the regional disparity in housing costs has altered how Americans of different incomes pursue opportunity.

New York City has become a place where it's not easy for the working class to even live.

Despite the debt, the traffic, the one-party rule, the taxes, and the eagerness of politicians to overwhelm small businesses and large corporate job producers with red tape and unnecessary regulations, the Golden State is still the most beautiful place to live and work in the United States.

The message has to go to U.P. and Bihar that there is no space left in Mumbai for you. After destroying the city, the migrants will go back to their villages. But where will we go then?

There's a lot of concern that London is changing and artists are being forced to move to new areas.

When they come here, the English make a choice: New York or L.A. L.A. suited me better, I just feel comfortable here.

In America there's lot of cool cities, but in Canada there's, like, well, Vancouver, Toronto and Halifax may be cool, but they're so expensive. Montreal is the only city that's affordable but also has buses and culture.

People don't live in Austin to work, they work to live there.

My own experience in the third world was that even if people started to make more money, the cost of living and housing increased often faster than the wages.

I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.

I would never want to move to L.A.

In Europe, it's common to hear about young professionals living with their parents. With the continent's high rents and taxes and its population density, it makes sense.

I like L.A., but I shouldn't live there.

I always tell people that if I move anywhere it would be Toronto.

I'd love to live in Kent but it's all a question of work.

All sorts of creative communities are withering in New York because it's too hard to live here. It's ridiculous how expensive it is.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.