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Comment by Robdel12 | Hacker News Reader

Thank GOD. Please stop moving here then. And if you hate it, leave and take that annoying attitude with you.

Please don't take HN threads into regional flamewar, or any flamewar, no matter which region or group you have a problem with. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

This is what I've been saying about the people in SF. While I feel for you, I hope they don't come back here. Every city, including SF and Austin, are better off without the people who don't actually want to live there.

Maybe if the Bay Area started building enough housing, people who wanted to live there could do so.

Maybe the techies should form a union and lobby the local municipalities to relax the zoning laws.

After all, some of that monopolistic rent should go to good uses.

There are groups working on this:

* https://new.yimbyaction.org/

* https://cayimby.org/

The unofficial motto of Austin has been "don't move here" for something like at least the last decade I think.

The unofficial infrastructure policy has explicitly been "if we don't build it, they won't come" since at least the 70s.

The article says they are trying to...

The rising interest rate thing sucks. People are trapped in their home, because an equal value home mortage would cost more. Then there isn't any supply, so prices go up, making it even harder, now even equivalent homes are less quality

This should be a top comment.

The housing is still comparatively cheap though, so while it might slow it wont stop

Define "comparatively". Ricky dink suburban ranch homes that are anywhere remotely central, but otherwise nothing special, go for 1.3-1.5 million. Sure, that's cheaper than super in-demand places like the Bay Area, but (a) property taxes are much higher here because we have no state income tax, and (b) it may be cheaper on a per-dollar basis, but salaries here aren't usually as high as SF or NY, and we have way, way, way fewer amenities compared to those cities.

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