Yeah, friend of mine is big on Silversun Pickups. They're OK.

What enraged me about the article was that it’s 100% bad faith rationalizations to convince himself that the anti-development policies he supports (and whose primary consequences he is insulated from by rent control) aren’t to blame for the problems he’s complaining about. But it’s all bull****. High rents don’t favor chain stores. Why would they? If anything, they favor luxury retail, not 7/11. Foreign buyers are not driving the rent crisis. The poor quality of MTA signaling equipment is not the fault of low tax rates on millionaires (he actually does try to link these issues!)

The central lie though is that NYC is too amenable to development, which it certainly is not. In 2016, Atlanta permitted almost as many new housing units as New York, despite being so much smaller. (1) The author is such a NIMBY that he’s scandalized by the idea of developing a bunch of junkyards into a mixed-use community with affordable housing. Now maybe that deal was corrupt and bad, but he’s upset that they’re building literally anything anywhere.

You are obviouslu correct that I don’t want my city or any city to be strangled by high rents. But I live in a normal city (to be fair, with fewer geographic and historic constraints) where we just build housing when there’s is demand for it, so the price stays anchored to cost of construction. We want Amazons new Ha to come because getting 50,000 high-paying jobs doesn’t mean that 50,000 current residents need to be ground out of their homes by crushing rents.


(1) https://www.seattletimes.com/busines...oaring-prices/

well, on paper, and i don't do anything there or go to the meetings because I dont find them helpful for my mental health , but on paper I am part of a pro immigrant group for Kansas and on behalf of that group i would state a different perspective. nyc and sf are incredibly competitive rental prices because that's where people want to live. but many many places in america have lowering real estate prices and the opposite problem. there is a population exodus in the great plains leaving behind a number of ....wonderful rural economic opportunity zones!

There are places in kansas where you can get a house and or land for free. kansas will pay you to live here. no catch. there are people from apartments in california that own homes they got here for free and raise their family there. also in places like hutchinson you can get a big house for 90-100k. so there arent infinite people like some sf residents may believe.

Pretty sure Kansas is the catch.

It's amazing to me how much the Rust Belt looks like a Fallout game. This is downtown in an actual American city:

No Kansas is probably the greatest rural economic opportunity zone in america mostly because of the cheap and arable land but epsecially mostly because im here. part of me has some insane narcisstic thinking that i dont share in real life becqause its so embarrasing and insane but its there and that part of me genuinely thinks kansas might be the best state because im here. like best states for liberals

3. new york
2. california
1. kansas*
* assuming you live within a ten mile radius of bryce. that part of my mind is looking at it and thiking huh thats like really ridiculous but its there and its great to take your mind off things.

Like he isnt super bryce but a lot more fun for me to imaginate when i look in the mirror. he's all like enrique thought his greatest challenge would be crossing the border but once he reached safety in a small kansas town he found his greatest challenge is crossing the border into bryces heart.

I need to go outside very badly.

as for politics. I think things will get worse before they get better. theyll get better though i believe in the power of love.

Don't need no credit card to ride this train!

for what its worth i dont get it microbet.

nevermind im ******ed i get it. i was thinking of later covers in my head and then i was thinking something else and got confused