BLUE STATE BLUES: Disappointing photos show what living in San Francisco on a tech salary really looks like.

It’s a genuine loss when such smart, ambitious people have to devote so much of their smarts and ambition just to finding a place to live, but this bit from the photo essay is just too precious:

And so tech workers, both seasoned and newly minted, have had to get creative with how they can outsmart the city’s notoriously absurd rental costs.

Maybe they could, I don’t know, try voting Republican?