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Originally Posted by pdxtex
you'd think everybody priced out of the city would have moved to oakland.
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People aren't being priced out. This whole "no one can afford to live in SF and NYC and Seattle and DC" is something being pushed by people who don't actually live in these places.
I know tons of people who have come and gone from NYC, and never once did I hear someone claim they were "priced out of the city" as if they had no choice but to live in a garbage can if they were to remain. People are well aware you get less space in these places, and adjust. Most of these places have been ungodly expensive since forever.
And the whole "we need to demolish neighborhoods and build even higher density to making housing cheaper" is another idea pushed by outsiders, not locals. Good luck finding actual Manhattanites, regardless of political affiliation, who would endorse such a policy.