• fuckwit [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    property ownership rate is way higher and cost of living is way lower, though.

    • Sklorp [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      And what do you think would happen to that cost of living if a bunch of people with California tech wages moved there

      • fuckwit [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        Price would increase but so would property values. Again, Montana has a near 70% homeownership rate, nearly 13% more than California.

        • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          Migrant workers and the homeless aren't included in those stats, and if there's one thing migratory Californians are good at it's genociding those groups

        • Sklorp [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Its not gentrification because house prices will rise

          :visible-disgust:

          • fuckwit [none/use name]
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            3 years ago

            you’re forgetting the context that most people in Montana are landowners

            • Sklorp [she/her]
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              3 years ago

              The only way that's relevant to an increase in cost of living and taxation for the working class is through taking on debt in the houses or the sale of housing. House ownership used to be way higher in gentrified areas.

              Tbis is just a mind boggling take.

              • fuckwit [none/use name]
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                3 years ago

                yes, the historically disadvataged people of montana with their thousand acre farms will be slightly financially inconvenienced by some slightly more privileged libs moving into their lands. i mean, really, this is hardly gentrification. let’s be real.

                • Sklorp [she/her]
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                  3 years ago

                  Just because you don't know what gentrification is doesn't make it fake. Gentrification primary mechanism is the raising of house prices, a factor you somehow consider to counteract gentrification because everyone in"Fly over" states are wealthy landowners. This in spite of similar poverty rates and a lower median income than the places that can experience gentrification.

                  Your take is just bad

                  • fuckwit [none/use name]
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                    3 years ago

                    Gentrification is literally defined by the restructuring of urban spaces and Montana….lacks those.