Hey, I want to answer this one because I think it's important. You might think of me as a privileged high paid tech worker driving prices up. Actually I come f

Hey, I want to answer this one because I think it's important. You might think of me as a privileged high paid tech worker driving prices up. Actually I come from a working class family in southern europe. I'd spare you the details but I spent all my live slowly crawling up my way to where I am. Nearing 40 my life savings are 5 figures, and I have never owned any property or anything of value. Had I been born in the US I would be held as a paragon of the American dream and social mobility. So now I move and start in a new country all over again. We live in a visa that would kick us out of the country if I lost my job, and it will take years to achieve any kind of stability. We have to pay a good chunk of our inflated tech income to pay for rent. I know complaining as a tech worker is playing the world smallest violin. I recognize and appreciate my privilege. But we aren't exactly the winners here. The winners are landlords and investment funds. Blaming highly paid immigrants misses the point and just serves to tear us further apart. Instead we should look at the systems that have caused a systematic shortage of housing.