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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 ā€œfailingā€ 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? šŸ¤”
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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 ā€œgig livingā€ 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 mešŸ™„... they have no clue
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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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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 wrote a program to poll 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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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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