<story><title>California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-california-plans-to-turn-the-screws-on-nimby-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rank0</author><text>The youngsters are free to live elsewhere no? I just purchased my first home earlier this year. Obviously I had no choice but to purchase a home in a city&amp;#x2F;neighborhood I could afford. Why can’t others do the same?</text></item><item><author>azinman2</author><text>That’s been the mentality in SF for years — “we don’t want to become nyc”. And so what happens? Prices skyrocket, the people who made the city interesting and serve its needs are pushed out, and only the rich enjoy it. The young generation as a whole has little hope of home ownership, while the top who work in well paid jobs reap all the rewards. Those well paid jobs are where it’s expensive to live, so it’s a catch 22. It doesn’t create a balanced society, and in fact just further stresses the differences between the haves versus the have nots. At it’s worst the wealth inequality turns into tinder for moving beyond culture wars into actual war or revolution.</text></item><item><author>rank0</author><text>One thing I don’t understand about the housing debate is why any specific area needs to be “affordable”&lt;p&gt;If I can’t afford to live in an area, it seems to me the solution is to live somewhere else.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I’m missing something. I’m open to new ideas here but I really don’t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tcmart14</author><text>A number of different factors that vary for people depending on circumstances. My wife is in nursing school. Sure, we could move to some rural town in Montana when she finishes, but its not reasonable if the closest hospital is 4 hours away. Some of the more affordable places just don&amp;#x27;t have good access to jobs people want or are qualified for.&lt;p&gt;I myself work full time and am going to school for Software Engineering. Right now job prospects in where I would like move don&amp;#x27;t look great since the last job fair I attended, I got the feeling most companies are planning to axe remote work ASAP. Which then limits my ability to move in the market place for jobs.</text></comment>
<story><title>California plans to turn the screws on NIMBY cities</title><url>https://fullstackeconomics.com/how-california-plans-to-turn-the-screws-on-nimby-cities/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rank0</author><text>The youngsters are free to live elsewhere no? I just purchased my first home earlier this year. Obviously I had no choice but to purchase a home in a city&amp;#x2F;neighborhood I could afford. Why can’t others do the same?</text></item><item><author>azinman2</author><text>That’s been the mentality in SF for years — “we don’t want to become nyc”. And so what happens? Prices skyrocket, the people who made the city interesting and serve its needs are pushed out, and only the rich enjoy it. The young generation as a whole has little hope of home ownership, while the top who work in well paid jobs reap all the rewards. Those well paid jobs are where it’s expensive to live, so it’s a catch 22. It doesn’t create a balanced society, and in fact just further stresses the differences between the haves versus the have nots. At it’s worst the wealth inequality turns into tinder for moving beyond culture wars into actual war or revolution.</text></item><item><author>rank0</author><text>One thing I don’t understand about the housing debate is why any specific area needs to be “affordable”&lt;p&gt;If I can’t afford to live in an area, it seems to me the solution is to live somewhere else.&lt;p&gt;Maybe I’m missing something. I’m open to new ideas here but I really don’t get it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>idreyn</author><text>Others are free to do the same, except that they have to continue to commute to where the jobs are. If they&amp;#x27;re lucky they might live on the fringes of BART but increasingly people are just condemned to hours-long gridlocked freeway commutes to get to their $17&amp;#x2F;hr job in SF. To recover any kind of decent quality of life you&amp;#x27;re talking about moving to a different region&amp;#x2F;state.</text></comment>