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by CheezeIt 1875 days ago
The optimization is that it’s affordable to live there.
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Is it affordable because of the zoning, or because it's a mind numbingly boring flatland with no geographic barriers to endless sprawl?
It’s also a wildly diverse multi-cultural melting pot full of interesting entrepreneurs from all over the word, and a place that offers significant upward mobility to millions of people.