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Same problems in SF. City booming, high cost of living, not enough houses for everyone.

Except London is surrounded by very nice commuter suburbs with very good, comfortable rail where you can get large houses near a train station.

In cities with significant commuter infrastructure, like NY and London you can always find cheap places to live. Plenty of affordable rents in Staten island and NJ. That's why I ignore all the media whining about prices in NY, they just mean buying a place in Manhattan or northern Brooklyn.

I wonder under what circumstances do those three things don't go together?

In a world of land value tax.

In San Francisco it's a ridiculously low density of building.

It should be even worse in London, where outside of the very center most buildings are single family houses (with garden!), unlike most other European capitals, where the most common living spaces are flats in high rise buildings.

When there's spare land.

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