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A recent conversation with a co-worker really drove this home: what's crazy to me is how comically short-sighted folks are. We've priced our children out of the towns we raised them in but it doesn't seem to bother anyone.

And we've slapped a huge amount of college debt on their backs, just to be sure.

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>We've priced our children out of the towns we raised them in

Alternatively, "our children left behind the sprawling 2nd and 3rd-string metros we raised them in, realized what rent costs in walkable neighborhoods in destination cities, and are finally beginning to appreciate why we raised them in sleepy suburbs in flyover country and why they spent so much time in cars."

Obviously some children got priced out of the Bay Area, but I think most of the rent crisis is attributable to people who grew up in low density now seeking high density.

Bingo. Every generation discovers why the suburbs are desirable

Someone in the past few months was describing this situation as a return to feudal concepts, where the only most practical way to buy a house is to live with your parents until they die and then inherit it.

Prior to the Montgomery G.I. Bill, people lived with their parents until they got married - if they could afford it.

Now they get to live with them after they get married, too!

That sound like a third-world country to me.

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