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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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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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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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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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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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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.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1268751374713368576?s=21 …

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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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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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      There’s really no place on earth I truly want to live at a sub-mansion scale. It all sucks. #Mansions4All

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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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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        1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 6
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          Venkatesh Rao Retweeted 𝕍𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕚 𝕤𝕚 𝔻𝕖𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣  🎄

          Being a landlord is one of my top 5 business-ideas-from-hell. People actually aspire to this smh. https://twitter.com/dbabbitt/status/1269386285896077318?s=21 …https://twitter.com/dbabbitt/status/1269386285896077318 …

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          𝕍𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕚 𝕤𝕚 𝔻𝕖𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣  🎄 @dbabbitt
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          Have you thought of the landlord angle, where you buy a duplex and pay the mortgage with the rental income?
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        1. 𝕍𝕖𝕝𝕦𝕥𝕚 𝕤𝕚 𝔻𝕖𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕥𝕦𝕣  🎄‏ @dbabbitt Jun 6
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          Have you thought of the landlord angle, where you buy a duplex and pay the mortgage with the rental income?

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          2^3 is 8

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        1. Matt Kent‏ @m4ttk3nt Jun 6
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          I suspect "acceptable social milieu + material comfort" amount to "desirability" for most people. I think you may have just rediscovered the law of supply and demand.

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          I’m in a complexity = 3^3 situation 😀 Venice and Santa Monica have acceptable social milieu and material comfort

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        2. caudamus‏ @caudamus Jun 6
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          We did successfully solve this with a group house of 8 people. It took a year of meeting on nights and weekends, in which we generated >200 pages of documents on shared vision and alignment, mission, trade offs, economic forecasts, and legal contracts. 1k-10k hours was our est.

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          I think it was actually harder that making a startup. Or maybe just as hard as making a startup with 8 founders.

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        1. Barry Kelly‏ @barrkel Jun 6
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          I wrote a program to poll http://rightmove.co.uk  within a subset of London area for houses that satisfied our criteria. Most restrictive criterion was having a garage, to make life better for our motorcycles. Garages are a lot more rare these days in London.

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        2. Dragos Ilinca - #Serverless‏ @dragosilinca Jun 7
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          Add kids to the equation and wanting to avoid being 12hr time difference from family & friends and it gets crazy. I'm at a stage where I can't even find a city where I'd be OK with the compromise.

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        3. Dragos Ilinca - #Serverless‏ @dragosilinca Jun 7
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          I'm in Vancouver now, great nature, beautiful city, great for kids, crazy expensive, fee opportunities, little tech, too chill, people not that ambitious, everyone just doing real estate, far from Europe where family is. Not sure I'll be here long term, but can't see alternative

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