:mao-shining: https://www.reddit.com/r/Austin/comments/l6fvum/i_cannot_describe_how_fucked_the_austin_housing/

  • krothotkin [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    don't worry everyone leaving California and gentrifying your neighborhood over the next decade will make this even worse

    why tf does America not have good public housing

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      Those Californians are leaving cuz they can't afford California, ask me how I know

    • Rusty_Shackleford [he/him,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      It's really hard not to resent Calif*rnians when they move to your city, buy home(s) in cash, brag about their big salaries, and then complain about the weather and Mexican food

  • EldritchMayo [he/him,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    As a Canadian, why? What’s so special about Austin? Is it one of the few cities that’s still affordable to live in while being large enough to constitute a city or something?

    • regul [any]
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      4 years ago

      Tech is moving there because Texas has lower taxes. They're moving to Austin because it's the one city in Texas not politically dominated by chuds.

    • quartz242 [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      It's the housing market in alot of hot cities. It's wild

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      Austin is cool, it's on par with Denver, Portland, Seattle, the Bay Area, NYC, Atlanta, etc popular cities

  • Rusty_Shackleford [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    It's like this in basically every medium to large city in the US. Cost of housing has gone up 10% just in the last year where I live. It was bad before COVID but all the plague movers are flocking here and buying homes in cash when locals can't even afford a loan for a mortgage. It's fucked.

    • LangdonAlger [any]
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      4 years ago

      Just looked at Minneapolis and there's so much housing stock compared to the PNW. Made me consider uprooting everything I know just to get a nice house for a reasonable price

  • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I used to live in the PNW. Can't afford to anymore.

    I miss my fourteen hour rain storms. :(