An ongoing trend with a lot of Google employees is to camp out on the tech giant’s campus. This is an ongoing trend for a lot of workers who can’t afford the insane price of buying a home in these high-cost California areas. Most of these employees will live in RVs parked near Google, while others temporarily ‘live’ in the parking lots. A California woman drives through the Mountain View, California area to show the miserable sight in HD.
“Ever wonder how tech workers employed by Google live?” read the caption of Rachel’s TikTok video. She drives through a street in Mountain View, showing RVs parked up and down the streets in the dozens. She says a lot of the people who live in or stay on the side of the road at Google facilities are ‘temp workers.’ But the fact Google employees can’t live within 100 miles of their work says a lot. These people are literally living next to their workplaces because the price to live in the area is far too much. How are people expected to spend time with family or raise children?
“Who can afford rent in the area if Google employees cannot afford rent?” Rachel asks in her video. In the comments, most people understood exactly what she meant by the area being too unaffordable. They also understood this is not a good working/living condition for these tech workers.
As one person stated, “All the education and hustle and labor to live like this.” And this trend has been happening for years and is nothing new for these people. Other commenters, however, tried to defend billionaires or even verbally attack the workers for buying RVs and practically living outside their jobs.
“Meanwhile I’m getting comments that even one of those RVs would put a down payment on a home… In this area, homes with black mold will still run you $2 mil,” Rachel clapped back with.
“Homes in this area are in the $3-5m range,” one commenter pointed out. And that’s for a decent Mountain View home. Maybe that works for Google’s CEO and leaders, but not for the average person. It’s yet one more example of why California, and the U.S. as a whole, should be building more housing.
