craigslist

[nibot]

There were 2212 apartment/housing ads posted on Craigslist/San Francisco today. There were 13 posted on Craigslist/San Diego.

Comments

[fanlain.livejournal.com]

hopefully they're not all planning to move to san diego.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

heh.

yeah. so it turns out that, while there are craigslists for a whole bunch of cities, most of them suck.

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I noticed this effect when I introduced my brother to Craigslist and found out the Columbus was getting it soon. It probably takes a few months before it's well-established and well-used in an area. And it helps that "San Francisco" is one of the largest areas in a craigslist "city". New York and Boston may have very large areas of effect too. But San Diego probably doesn't include a whole lot outside the city itself and might be only a few months old. I don't know.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

I think it's just that craigslist is a Bay Area Phenomenon (tm).

[easwaran.livejournal.com]

I actually first heard of it wrt Boston.

craiglist metaphysics

[ocexile.livejournal.com]

Craiglist is indeed a Bay Area(R) phenomenon (which is the default site), though it's now extensively used in the Los Angeles area. Most "Craiglists" don't work as Craiglists, because so few people elsewhere list things on it. This reminds me of the comic where a man has just invented the "telephone", to which his friend says, "Who are you going to call?"

*By Bay Area, I mean SF and East Bay. Listings on South Bay are relatively shabby in proportion to its population.

Re: craiglist metaphysics

[ucbfumbler.livejournal.com]

It's the network effect. If you have something great but it requires a lot of people to use it, then it's useless and expensive it more people use it.

If you need a place...

[ucbfumbler.livejournal.com]

My uncle owns an apartment off of Genesee across the street from the campus. I hear he hasn't raise rent in 14 years. I guess he never got around to it due to his business and stuff.

[squarkz.livejournal.com]

seattle's CL is pretty great.

i am totally overwhelmed by the number of available apartments, actually. how am i to pick one?

[sculpting-time.livejournal.com]

I saw a post you made in the algorithms group and checked your profile. Noticed Bergman in there and the Bergman reference in your journal name and thought: I wonder if he's Swedish.

Ah, some cities have critical mass, some don't

[(Anonymous)]

SF, NY, LA, and Boston have a great deal of traffic, and then there's a grouping of cities with respectable traffic like Wash DC and Seattle.

however, some cities only have a few million pageviews per month.

that's okay, even the big ones grew slowly, and we're plugging away for the long run.

Craig
craig@craigslist.org