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Renting is a choice. Choosing a particular apartment at a given price point to rent is also a choice.

• andrei_says_ 6y ago
  Like breathing is a choice? Where are the minimum-wage-affordable apartments in nyc? “Choice”
  • krapp 6y ago
    Choosing to live in a city you can't afford in a nation with nearly 4 million square miles worth of other options is also a choice.
    • geofft 6y ago
      Choosing to be a landlord in a city you can't afford is quite the choice, too.
    • machello13 5y ago
      The ignorance on HN always astounds me. Not everyone is a young software engineer making $100k who can move anywhere they want. You realize there are people in this country who can barely afford food, right? Let alone picking up and moving to a whole other city?
      • krapp 5y ago
        Someone who can "barely afford food" but somehow also manage to live in NYC can very likely afford a bus ticket. People move to follow work all the time, very few of them making anywhere near $100k.
        • WalterGR 5y ago
          What does the person who can barely afford food do after they've bought the bus ticket? They board the bus, they ride it to the destination. Then what do they do?
          • krapp 5y ago
            I don't know, find one of the many thousands of people who've done it and ask them. If people could manage stepping off the boat at Ellis island with maybe a suitcase but not a scrap of English or a dollar to their name a hundred years ago, people can manage a trip out of the city or out of the state today. Hell, today there's probably a subreddit and series of Youtube tutorials that will lay the plan out for you step by step. I'm not saying it would be easy, but it's obviously not impossible. Being able to move isn't a sign of privilege in modern society, stability is privilege. The poor are always at risk of losing what little they have and needing to move on or start over.
            • WalterGR 5y ago
              Well, I mean, you said that people today in that situation (right? Not the early 1900s?) can simply buy a bus ticket. I figured that implied that you know what they're supposed to do next. Otherwise you wouldn't have given that advice, since simply buying a bus ticket doesn't save them from barely even being able to afford food. Right?
              • krapp 5y ago
                You're being unnecessarily pedantic.
                • WalterGR 5y ago
                  Look, I see in your past submissions that you are or were in school. Obviously that doesn’t peg your age - but I don’t want to beat up on somebody who’s never paid their own way. That said... You implied it was simply an issue of buying a bus ticket - magical hand wave. It’s not pedantic to ask the obvious follow-up question: then what?
                  • djbebs 5y ago
                    You find a job, find find a place to live in. It's not difficult. I moved thousands of kilometers and countries away on my own.