I randomly chose Kansas City Kansas and there are houses there for less than 200k that looked ok.
Living in San Francisco is not necessary. Live somewhere cheaper and stop complaining that desireable places to live are more expensive.
Living in San Francisco is not necessary. Live somewhere cheaper and stop complaining that desireable places to live are more expensive.
> Live somewhere cheaper and stop complaining
This is how you eradicate civil society, if working people are priced out of where they were born. But it happens, and it has happened historically. Millions left Europe for America. Millions will leave "cemetery cities" where young people cannot afford to live. I've seen such places and know how they are. The old people there hate the younger generation, even though most young people have moved out and the few teens there are itching to get the hell out as well.
On top of that, what you save financially you frequently pay for in other ways. Communities and services that can be found in large cities simply don't exist in smaller and midwest areas.
I live in a small town because I could not afford the big city near by.
Life is full of compromises, not living in the most expensive city in the country shouldn’t be considered a hardship.
For many of us, the culture of smaller cities and increasingly even the laws of entire states represent an existential threat, or an existential threat to our loved ones. That is much more than a "hardship."