I'm a lil sympathetic to the "if housing is too expensive then move somewhere cheaper" argument. I know jobs and friends make it hard but like, almost the entire US is pretty cheap besides a few dense hotspots.
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The jobs that pay the most (aka: contribute the most to society) are in those dense hotspots.
When one chooses not take the best paying job available due to the cost of housing, they fail to maximize wealth...and ultimately, that leaves us with more poverty than necessary.
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But then again, the reneissance and center of the world is in The Bay area. So how could I live anywhere else
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Cities are labour markets. The NIMBYs are making our generation choose between housing and our careers. It shouldn't be this way.
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As a Berkeley native, it's pretty annoying that most of my childhood friends have moved away because 1) too expensive and 2) the Bay area got relatively boring.
Let's build beautiful 4 story apartment buildings and invest in trains for pub trans?
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It’s the American dream to pick your stuff up and move to where there’s opportunity.
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Good luck finding jobs, opportunities, community, social interaction, etc. when you move to the cheap places.
You basically have to create all of those things yourself, because they don’t exist where housing is cheap.
Seems doable, but is extremely difficult in practice
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