> So don't live in Southern California? People need to live where the jobs are. When cities permit offices, but not housing they're screwing people over. > "A

> So don't live in Southern California? People need to live where the jobs are. When cities permit offices, but not housing they're screwing people over. > "Avocado toast" is a metaphor for conspicuous consumption at the expense of savings and investment. Here's an example from national numbers: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=FYMk https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=FYMk The price of a median house has gone from 3.6x the median salary to 5x. The ratios are worse in the cities that have added the most jobs. Framing this as a failure of personal behavior is missing the point. The current generation has to work harder than previous generations to achieve the same thing.