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shrike82 posted:The narrative that the economy's being screwed because millenials aren't spending hasn't panned out though. Millennials spend like goons: they don't buy houses and cars, but they plow money into anime figurines and trendy restaurants
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Cicero posted:Good luck with that, every time a micro apartment complex goes up, people get really mad about what housing others choose to live in. It's not to their personal tastes, you see, and therefore should not exist, and furthermore anyone who prefers it is a literal babby. Fine with the trade-offs of a tiny apartment? Too bad, your personal preferences are incorrect and you should feel bad for having them. This anger happens because entire families get forced into single bedroom micro apartments, recreating early 20th century slums.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:One of the major reasons people want to move to the Bay Area is that there's a poo poo load of high paying tech jobs there and said techies end up driving a lot of demand. Tech giants offer tons of perks and that requires manpower, which creates jobs in the area. Plus that's been an urban area for quite a long time so you have a lot of families with a century of roots in the area. The other big issue is that when cost of living gets too high it can become impossible to move out. Unless you get a job offering relocation expenses you have to foot the bill for that yourself. Why should society subsidize what is essentially your lifestyle preferences?
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:I'm all for "buying less things" and conscious consumerism (to the degree that sort of thing is really possible), but a movement to tiny homes/residences/mobile living is born from low wages, and nothing else. There have always been people that want to live like that, but it's not because they had to. The number of people doing it now, they're doing it because they have to. In San Francisco though, it's probably very likely that there's a huuuuge shortage of occupiable rooms compared to the number of people who want to live in San Francisco. No single entity is making San Francisco expensive except for the individual snowflakes who are convinced they play no part in the blizzard.
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