"The Rent Is Too Damn High: What To Do About It, And Why It Matters More Than You Think"
Not where I live. What to do about it? Move. Find an employer willing to let you work remotely, and find your own quiet cost-conscious piece of paradise.
Not where I live. What to do about it? Move. Find an employer willing to let you work remotely, and find your own quiet cost-conscious piece of paradise.
Too few companies offer remote, because remote is hard. My experience at Stack is that remote work really only happens when a company supports it “natively” from the start. It’ll take a generation to make a dent, sadly. I’d like to be wrong.
Some of us like living in the city :(.
The demand for urban living outpaces supply of urban housing the United States. We need a great urban housing expansion throughout the country to make city living affordable again.
I've always been intending to read "The Human Zoo":
"How does city life change the way we act? What accounts for the increasing prevalence of violence and anxiety in our world? In this new edition of his controversial 1969 bestseller, The Human Zoo, renowned zoologist Desmond Morris argues that many of the social instabilities we face are largely a product of the artificial, impersonal confines of our urban surroundings. Indeed, our behavior often startlingly resembles that of captive animals, and our developed and urbane environment seems not so much a concrete jungle as it does a human zoo. Animals do not normally exhibit stress, random violence, and erratic behavioruntil they are confined. Similarly, the human propensity toward antisocial and sociopathic behavior is intensified in todays cities. Morris argues that we are biologically still tribal and ill-equipped to thrive in the impersonal urban sprawl. As important and meaningful today as it was a quarter-century ago, The Human Zoo sounds an urgent warning and provides startling insight into our increasingly complex lives."
http://www.amazon.com/The-Human-Zoo-Zoologists-Kodansha/dp/1...
If you've read this book, do yourself a favor and read some refutations. Or do one better, and learn economics so you can think about these issues clearly.
http://www.amazon.com/Economics-One-Lesson-Shortest-Understa...