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Finding housing that works for you is now as complex as founding a startup. Lifestyle-resources fit. Own or rent, exit = you can last there ~5+ years and come out with net increase in net worth or something.
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21 failures to exit in 22 years, and counting. I’m either one of the world’s worst household founders, or one of the world’s best nomads. I don’t expect #22 to last more than 2 years before “failing” in some way.
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Trawling Glendale and Hollywood neighborhoods for likely places all morning. Depressing af. I can tell at a glance most options won’t work >2y. Yet I’ll end up in one of these. Feature of my life in 2000 is big in 2020.
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Hunt for 22nd apartment in 23 years begins now. 8 cities, 7 states, small biz moved states 3 times. Not my fault. I’d stay put if I had the mansion which is rightfully mine. It has been denied me by the Hufflepuffs. How come nobody realizes the Hufflepuffs are the villains? 🤔
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It’s really weird how people haven’t appreciated the parallels between employment precarity and the rise of gig working on the one hand and housing precarity and the rise of “gig living” where every housing situation has the transient feel of a gig.
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Pick 2 of 3: acceptable social milieu, material comfort, affordability, complexity = n^3 where n is number of people who need to arrive at consensus. A married couple is 9x more complex than a single, which is why suggestions from single people make me🙄... they have no clue
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Having your own 'home' is a salve to the soul. Hang in there! Consider moving to the midwest? I have heard good things from friends who made the move.
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Gig living definitely describes how I've felt lately. Finally found a place that might solve that problem for me... at least for a while.
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I kind of don't want to live out in the middle of nowhere (by Bellingham, Washington), but I also kind of like the idea of having a warehouse with 1,250 amps for less than $1k for first 6 months. It also has a shower, mini kitchen, and washer+dryer. Should I do it?
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Not to mention the 5-year trend-correlation between the terms 'gig economy' and 'vanlife.' What used to be 'living in your car' has been reframed not as an increasingly best-viable option to affordable housing, but as a cheeky lifestyle choice.
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No, it's obvious. People who "settle down", buy a house, have a family, are pretty much forced to compromise on their work too, and look for less risky, more stable jobs and stick with them for years. Which is its own kind of risk, of course.
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Way back in 1973, F.M. Esfandiary (later called FM-2030) proposed houses as 'mobilias', temporary living quarters for a jet set always on the go. Property would be limited to personal items, whatever else brought to a mobilia remains there. This was in _Upwingers_.
F.M. Esfandiary, later FM-2030
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