Brandon is currently living at home with his parents and his mom also works with Stanford R&DE. His whole family recently moved 3 months ago to Santa Clara after rent in East Palo Alto became too high.
“What I do see is that bigger companies are making houses for their employees and they’re kinda raising the price of rent higher...they’re not doing it to force us out but they’re doing it without...intention but they’re raising the prices so they can have enough money but we don’t have enough money to pay the price they’re offering...But I’m not trying to say that they’re kicking us out but I’m just saying say if you really think about it it’s kinda like they’re doing it so other people can move in and we will kinda go away.
Well honestly, because well the rent is getting higher and higher so we wanna buy somewhere where it’s like cheap so we don’t have to pay rent because rent is just basically money thrown away"