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It's increasingly getting harder to find a 'somewhere else' to move. I mean in the 90s you'd move across town, now you need to move east of the Mississippi. Th
by gremlinsinc 4y ago
It's increasingly getting harder to find a 'somewhere else' to move. I mean in the 90s you'd move across town, now you need to move east of the Mississippi.
The average home price in Utah was 350k 4-5 years ago. It is now 560k. I was close to being able to afford one, now I'm a decade out from it, and then maybe never. I'm more likely to buy some land and a tiny home, and call it a day.
We need to control the greed that is homeownership/rent-seeking, and put caps on things, or at least institute a land-value tax tied to rent : wages ratios.
- buzzert 4y agoYou don't have to move across the country. Considering SF, you can just move to Modesto, which is 1.5hrs away and has a third of the cost of living.