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Originally Posted by Crawford
I could see LA/SD as "more expensive" than the Bay Area.
\My wife really likes the West Coast, so we both have job alerts set to these areas, and there's an avalanche of jobs in the Bay Area that would suit our skills. In contrast, seems like very slim pickings in LA/SD.
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Same. And LA is my preference if I were to move to California.
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Originally Posted by Crawford
Yes, Chicago is an outlier in the city and surroundings are extremely pro-development. I'm not clear, however, why restricting development would boost population, as if the people living in 200k homes in corn fields would opt for shoeboxes in Lincoln Park if their present lifestyles were outlawed.
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Chicago has quite a few areas that are struggling for residents and Lincoln Park isn't one of them, so it is probably not the most appropriate comparison. But there is a serious policy issue when you have large areas of abandoned/under-utilized development in the core, which is available in abundance in Chicago, and are still creating greenfield developments on the fringe. That is one of the main criteria distinguishing the Rust Belt from other former industrial hubs.