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• batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Look I’m happy for you, but I’m from an area where this is all very different from where I ended up.

  Im sorry, but I do think thats a massive part of this conversation. There are plenty of places where housing is still affordable, but relocation is a thing, and more importantly, so is the tie to pensions funds and investment in major metros.

  All of that to say, I’m glad to say it worked out for you and yours, but it’s just not relevant in this conversation, at least as long as social security requires people changing tires in Atlanta Georgia.

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  • TseseJuer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    wasn’t me. I just wanted to call you a crybaby

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    • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Lmfao. Points for clarity I guess? Thanks for the laugh.

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    plenty of places where housing is still affordable

    There are even places where people would give you houses nearly for free, but nobody wants to live there and the infrastructure is crap.

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    • batmaniam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Absolutely. But that also skirts the fact that the economy, globally, depends on rent in Manhattan being high. Like as shitty as the rent is, the bigger problem is how much of that “you’re paying someone else mortgage” thing is true and wayyyyy over optimized.

      Roll into that the fact that the whole rising/uninsurable thing in Florida is come for literally everywhere near sea level… Which is every major metro in the usa… It’s a problem.

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