I wonder at what point this stops. We have a certain subpopulation saying these things in Europe while companies actively vest in cities.
But hey, apparently the answer is to burn 10 hours of your workday instead of feeling 'entitled' to a modern, average-sized apartment while earning far above median. Next up, stop feeling entitled to a personal toilet and kitchen, middle class plebs.
The people screaming the loudest about the need to build are exactly the same people who recoil at the thought of living more than 100 meters from their heckin' microbreweryarinoes.
Life is all about tradeoffs. The United States is extremely large. It's not anyone's fault but your own that you, who can literally write adtech spyware for $300k from anywhere, refuse to entertain the notion of living outside the bugman bubble.
Like Boston, Chicago, Seattle, and countless other hellholes that the Urbanite loves nonetheless? The weather sucks, in different ways, pretty much everywhere other than the California coast. Most parts of the Mountain West are much more pleasant than most cities.
> no interesting things to do outside
Good point. A postage-stamp-sized overcrowded city park with human feces and needles is definitely preferable to actual nature.
I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but remote work aside, there are many second- and third-tier cities in the US that will pay a comfortable living wage relative to the cost of living and give you outdoor recreation options; pretty much just pick any population center that's not big enough to show up on the map when zoomed far out. Bonus points in areas deemed socially unacceptable to those living in coastal urban areas, because you get a discount on the number of people wanting to live in such places.
Unless your opinion is that it's a human right to be able to take free public transit 20 minutes to breathtaking mountains and 20 minutes the other way to pristine beaches and have it be 75 degrees and sunny every day, and everyone is paid a "living wage" no matter what they do?
> Not everyone gets to live in San Fran or Chicago.
Chicago is actually cheap because the city has historically allowed buildings. Huge swaths of the city are made of mostly 4 flats and 10+ unit apartment buildings, which means that my rent in one of the hotter neighborhoods is $1500 for a 3 bed.
But hey, apparently the answer is to burn 10 hours of your workday instead of feeling 'entitled' to a modern, average-sized apartment while earning far above median. Next up, stop feeling entitled to a personal toilet and kitchen, middle class plebs.