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Pretty sure my ancestral home is somewhere on Mayfair. I demand access to an affordable London flat thereabouts! Also if you're talking about the Bay Area, muc

Pretty sure my ancestral home is somewhere on Mayfair. I demand access to an affordable London flat thereabouts! Also if you're talking about the Bay Area, much of the real estate pricing there is driven by the anti-development tendencies of the owners of ancestral homes, either lining their own pockets or pushing some misguided political wheelbarrow (especially in SF). In that sense it's largely self inflicted. In other places even uneven economic growth tends to create bigger cities as the wealth spreads through the economy via construction and services and the like. It's when you try to fight the market that you get unintended consequences.

JumpCrisscross 8y ago
> Pretty sure my ancestral home is somewhere on Mayfair. I demand access to an affordable London flat thereabouts! We’d better get around to ceding Manhattan back to the Lenape, too.
- dijit 8y ago
  Maybe I chose poor words. Ancestral meaning “where my mother/father and grandparents, nieces, nefews etc live. I come from a city in England called Coventry. Family ties are what keep most of the population in place- perhaps “familial” is a better word. The idea of not being able to live close to family is distressing to many of my fellow city dwellers. You can argue the semantics of how valuable such a thing is. You can even argue that the entire family unit should probably move somewhere cheaper, or that commuting to see your mum isn’t all that bad. But honestly; it would take a lot for me to revisit the idea that I am not able to live amongst my family. Even if I personally did not choose to.