best long term solution would be to just "build more New-Yorks and San Franciscos". US is starting to have a "London problem" where too much of our economic and social capital is concentrated in a handful of cities. You…
can't the government just throw a couple billion to a bunch of startups in Manchester or something in order to encourage people to move there, and once Manchester can "stand on its own" with its own London like economy…
Not going to happen. My city has no rent control and condo prices are going up 10% a year. Nothing but luxury condos with a mortgage sized maintenance cost for all those useless gyms, pools, doormen and other garbage.
Stop subsidizing this: http://newshour-tc.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
You don't have to build anything or spend a single dollar to reverse this. Simply get the government out of the mortgage market and raise the gas tax to where it's supposed to be. 20% min downpayment @ 6% interest +…
No... we don't all have to live in 500 sqft apartments. It's just that instead of building our towns like this: http://i.imgur.com/5donv8c.jpg?1 we build it like this: http://i.imgur.com/9MpfuwP.jpg?1
All of you are approaching this the wrong way. Suburbia was born out of government policies, not because a bunch of towns decided to plan their cities differently. Here is what you do: Keep government away from the…
30 year mortgage is simply too long for me. I don't have that kind of stability. Mortgage term limit should be 10 years or maybe 15 with 20% down, that would solve a lot of problems. Before you say that I can choose to…
Unless this is some sort of a money laundering scheme...
Where could you get that kind of property for 25K?
Not everyone lives in SF bubble
no one here is saying that ADHD condition is not real.. It's just that some people like me have a problem with the way they decide to treat it. Pretending that this is all "genetics" written in stone and the only way to…
At the moment, >90% of our population is still employed. How can you people take all those projections that half of us will be replaced by robots in a decade seriously? I would be surprised if we even reach <80%…
>> If you took all the salaries, property and operations cost associated with distributing old age security, welfare, disability, unemployment wages etc etc, it would probably pay for much of the cost associated with…
Yeah let's stick the poor people with the cost of house maintenance and car ownership... urban planners are fucking retarded in this country.
The main reason housing projects failed in the first place is because they were located in mostly urban places and at that time cities were deteriorating fast with the transition to service economy and the rush by…
>> As several recent studies have shown, people in their 20s are turning against cars. That is such a misleading statistic. Of course young people are moving to the city centers, but what happens when they're in their…
you are pathetic
There are no women here. Rural India has a better gender ratio than Sillicon Valley.
NYC is much cheaper than SF and much more pleasant to live in than vast majority of cities in the US. You wouldn't convince me to live anywhere on the west. I would rather make 2x less money in NYC than live in some…
build more housing!!!
That's great but you assume that there is a choice. I want to live in a nice city, but I can't. Trillions of dollars, decades of government policies and dozen of agencies with their "homeownership" programs destroyed…
^ this. The amount of "ultra-luxury" towers going on in my city is way too high. Who the fuck has $800,000 cash? Numbers don't add up.
>> I can't see the use case for a car. I live in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of montreal. Everything I need is literally a five minute walk away in any direction. A bike gets me downtown about as fast as a car…
This and schools. There are no non-racist solutions to this.
best long term solution would be to just "build more New-Yorks and San Franciscos". US is starting to have a "London problem" where too much of our economic and social capital is concentrated in a handful of cities. You…
can't the government just throw a couple billion to a bunch of startups in Manchester or something in order to encourage people to move there, and once Manchester can "stand on its own" with its own London like economy…
Not going to happen. My city has no rent control and condo prices are going up 10% a year. Nothing but luxury condos with a mortgage sized maintenance cost for all those useless gyms, pools, doormen and other garbage.
Stop subsidizing this: http://newshour-tc.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
You don't have to build anything or spend a single dollar to reverse this. Simply get the government out of the mortgage market and raise the gas tax to where it's supposed to be. 20% min downpayment @ 6% interest +…
No... we don't all have to live in 500 sqft apartments. It's just that instead of building our towns like this: http://i.imgur.com/5donv8c.jpg?1 we build it like this: http://i.imgur.com/9MpfuwP.jpg?1
All of you are approaching this the wrong way. Suburbia was born out of government policies, not because a bunch of towns decided to plan their cities differently. Here is what you do: Keep government away from the…
30 year mortgage is simply too long for me. I don't have that kind of stability. Mortgage term limit should be 10 years or maybe 15 with 20% down, that would solve a lot of problems. Before you say that I can choose to…
Unless this is some sort of a money laundering scheme...
Where could you get that kind of property for 25K?
Not everyone lives in SF bubble
no one here is saying that ADHD condition is not real.. It's just that some people like me have a problem with the way they decide to treat it. Pretending that this is all "genetics" written in stone and the only way to…
At the moment, >90% of our population is still employed. How can you people take all those projections that half of us will be replaced by robots in a decade seriously? I would be surprised if we even reach <80%…
>> If you took all the salaries, property and operations cost associated with distributing old age security, welfare, disability, unemployment wages etc etc, it would probably pay for much of the cost associated with…
Yeah let's stick the poor people with the cost of house maintenance and car ownership... urban planners are fucking retarded in this country.
The main reason housing projects failed in the first place is because they were located in mostly urban places and at that time cities were deteriorating fast with the transition to service economy and the rush by…
>> As several recent studies have shown, people in their 20s are turning against cars. That is such a misleading statistic. Of course young people are moving to the city centers, but what happens when they're in their…
you are pathetic
There are no women here. Rural India has a better gender ratio than Sillicon Valley.
NYC is much cheaper than SF and much more pleasant to live in than vast majority of cities in the US. You wouldn't convince me to live anywhere on the west. I would rather make 2x less money in NYC than live in some…
build more housing!!!
That's great but you assume that there is a choice. I want to live in a nice city, but I can't. Trillions of dollars, decades of government policies and dozen of agencies with their "homeownership" programs destroyed…
^ this. The amount of "ultra-luxury" towers going on in my city is way too high. Who the fuck has $800,000 cash? Numbers don't add up.
>> I can't see the use case for a car. I live in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of montreal. Everything I need is literally a five minute walk away in any direction. A bike gets me downtown about as fast as a car…
This and schools. There are no non-racist solutions to this.