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> there’s no highly paid engineers driving up the cost of everything. Pretty sure there must be affordable small towns in the US without SW engineers to drive
by Rinzler89 3y ago
> there’s no highly paid engineers driving up the cost of everything.
Pretty sure there must be affordable small towns in the US without SW engineers to drive up the cost of everything.
But your point is rather poor. Those US SW engineers might cause local gentrification, but they also contribute a huge amount in state and government taxes, taxes that I'm sure the likes of Germany would also like to collect if they could, to fund their welfare, education, army, healthcare, etc.
And it's not like many large German cities aren't already gentrified and overpriced despite wages being lower than the US. Try moving to Münich, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hamburg or Berlin, look at real estate market then at the local wages. It's the same disease everywhere.
- visarga 3y agoIt's not a disease, just that you have limited space at the center, and everyone wants near good jobs.
- Rinzler89 3y ago>everyone wants near good jobs How dare they want a better life? /s You can always build up or denser but NIMBY's don't allow that so here we are.
- Clubber 3y agoHow do you make NYC denser?
- loeg 3y agoEliminate some of the height restrictions? Most of NYC isn't particularly tall outside of a couple areas.
- Rinzler89 3y agoWhere did you see me write about New York? I mentioned some big German cities.
- Clubber 3y agoI was just replying to this general statement. >>everyone wants near good jobs >How dare they want a better life? /s >You can always build up or denser but NIMBY's don't allow that so here we are. reply FWIW, I hope that WFH starts to revitalize all these dying small towns that exist on 90% of our landmass. They were nice back in the day.
- loglog 3y agoIt's not "limited space". In Germany, as in many parts of the US, strict zoning disallows building housing where people have to work/want to live at the cost of workers to the benefit of rent-seekers.
- rayiner 3y ago> Pretty sure there must be affordable small towns in the US without SW engineers to drive up the cost of everything. There are. Cedar Rapids is great! It would be even better if we had more industry in those places, and less of the industries that generate outsized returns for a few, like tech and finance. > But your point is rather poor. Those US SW engineers might cause local gentrification, but they also contribute a huge amount in state and government taxes, taxes that I'm sure the likes of Germany would also like to collect if they could, to fund their welfare, education, army, healthcare, etc. It's not worth the tradeoff. I've only visited Munich, but it seems much less shitty for an average person than NYC or SF.