[throwing838383]

There are many examples where that's not true: places like the beautiful college town of madison, Houston, Chicago, etc.

High living costs are a self imposed problem: housing regulation and zoning.

[jhall1468]

I agree, generally, but that's ignoring geographic boundaries which are huge for cities like Seattle and San Francisco. It's not the main issue (regulation and zoning are) but it's still a big piece of it.

[aledalgrande]

Yeah I guess you could get around it by building a ton of infrastructure like in Japan.