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Not if the supply dramatically outstrips demand. If you want to live in a walkable city in America with decent public transit (to the point where car ownership
by javanissen 4y ago
Not if the supply dramatically outstrips demand. If you want to live in a walkable city in America with decent public transit (to the point where car ownership is optional), low to moderate crime, and lots of jobs, relatively few places meet that demand. If there were twenty American cities with the same economic abundance and amenities as New York City, New York City rent would be lower.
- automatoney 4y agoThis was almost word for word my decision process when picking where to live. "I'm not going to buy a car, so I want to live somewhere designed for that, and I want to live somewhere with local tech jobs." I also don't like the heat too much, so that gives me a couple of cities in America, or I could move to another country.
- javanissen 4y agoYep. I live in NYC because the my thought process was the same, with the additional constraint that I needed to be close-ish to family. Have not regretted it for a second