Exactly. I tell people complaining about housing prices in New York City and California this all the time! There are other great places to live. It’s an obvious move if your financial expectations aren’t being met.

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lisplist an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I think it's definitely reasonable to consider moving if where you live just isn't worth it for you financially. Still, if you don't like it then leave is generally not great advice instead of asking our politicians to actually support policies that make our lives better.

	▲	ericmay an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I agree with you, I’m just pointing out the same logic applies to this astrophysicist as it does to anyone else with a complaint. Folks seem to want to celebrate this case just because they think it matters and makes the US look bad.

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bilbo0s 40 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

That just turns into a revolving door. People who can’t make it in California moved to Arizona and Texas. Then complained about Arizona and Texas and moved to Florida. Then complained about Florida and are now moving to the next region.

Without ever considering the possibility that things are just less affordable all across the US. There’s multimillion dollar condos even in tier 3 places that aren’t even all that. Like Madison or Pittsburgh. Let alone talking about getting a house in these areas.

We gotta get the government refocused on affordability. That’s really the only way forward. Young people really have to be given a fair shot here.

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etchalon an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think you're confusing "financial expectations" with "financial resources".

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AndrewKemendo an hour ago | parent [-]

It’s desire that you’re getting stuck on.

The amount of Cubans, Guatemalans, El Salvadorans Panamanians, etc… who had literally nothing and no resources to their name, who walked or hitched to the United States or Canada to back breaking labor to put their kids into high school is staggering.

Similarly for pretty much every cab driver and worker in Dubai, who is from Bangladesh or India or Kuala Lumpur or whatever…

In fact, I knew a very successful Honduran restaurant owner in Houston, who was deported twice from the U.S. between 1980-2000 finally got his citizenship on the third trip.

	▲	ericmay an hour ago \| parent [-]
		That’s how it worked for everyone coming to the United States. You might get a fever and die on a ship sailing from England. Irish and Italian settlers were treated harshly and worked in factories as children. People came from China to California to help build the railroads. This is just a recency bias.

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madaxe_again an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I find peoples’ recalcitrance to relocate hard to comprehend. They’re always like “ah, but kids, family, work”, while talking about little much other than how they hate where they live, hate their job, can’t stand Sunday lunches with their parents.

I have a kid. I have family. I work. I move continents when I get bored of the one I live on currently.

On which note, hi from Brazil. 9th country in which I have lived.