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But my question is how people live in the Bay Area on $5 an hour. Where is the difference coming from? Debt, parents, unused car etc.?

They don't live there, they just come there to drive. http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/When-Their-Shifts-End...

When I ask where there are coming from it's rarely from around the bay, usually Stockton or as far as Reno and coming for the weekend.

They could have rent control or prop 13 housing (often via parents).

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