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>There IS a reason why rent in high cost areas are so, well, costly.

Yeah, it's the ratio of population to number of housing units.

Exactly, I'm glad someone else realizes this. I live in Boston. It's the 4th most expensive city in the USA [0]. It's most decidedly not the 4th best city to live in the USA. The fact that enough NIMBY attitudes and construction unions have jacked up the cost of housing doesn't suddenly make it paradise.

[0] https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/08091...

Wouldn't you know it! I live in Boston too. I think we're a good prototype case since, well, we're such a shithole in so many ways.

Every year the Globe runs a story on Massachusetts losing its young and poor population to the Sun Belt, but if you bring up building more apartment buildings, people yell that you should Go Back Where You Come From.

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