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best long term solution would be to just "build more New-Yorks and San Franciscos". US is starting to have a "London problem" where too much of our economic and social capital is c…

can't the government just throw a couple billion to a bunch of startups in Manchester or something in order to encourage people to move there, and once Manchester can "stand on its…

Not going to happen. My city has no rent control and condo prices are going up 10% a year. Nothing but luxury condos with a mortgage sized maintenance cost for all those useless gy…

Stop subsidizing this: http://newshour-tc.pbs.org/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2014/...

You don't have to build anything or spend a single dollar to reverse this. Simply get the government out of the mortgage market and raise the gas tax to where it's supposed to be. …

No... we don't all have to live in 500 sqft apartments. It's just that instead of building our towns like this: http://i.imgur.com/5donv8c.jpg?1 we build it like this: http://i.img…

All of you are approaching this the wrong way. Suburbia was born out of government policies, not because a bunch of towns decided to plan their cities differently. Here is what you…

30 year mortgage is simply too long for me. I don't have that kind of stability. Mortgage term limit should be 10 years or maybe 15 with 20% down, that would solve a lot of problem…

Unless this is some sort of a money laundering scheme...

Where could you get that kind of property for 25K?

Not everyone lives in SF bubble

no one here is saying that ADHD condition is not real.. It's just that some people like me have a problem with the way they decide to treat it. Pretending that this is all "genetic…

At the moment, >90% of our population is still employed. How can you people take all those projections that half of us will be replaced by robots in a decade seriously? I would be …

>> If you took all the salaries, property and operations cost associated with distributing old age security, welfare, disability, unemployment wages etc etc, it would probably pay …

Yeah let's stick the poor people with the cost of house maintenance and car ownership... urban planners are fucking retarded in this country.

The main reason housing projects failed in the first place is because they were located in mostly urban places and at that time cities were deteriorating fast with the transition t…

>> As several recent studies have shown, people in their 20s are turning against cars. That is such a misleading statistic. Of course young people are moving to the city centers, b…

you are pathetic

There are no women here. Rural India has a better gender ratio than Sillicon Valley.

NYC is much cheaper than SF and much more pleasant to live in than vast majority of cities in the US. You wouldn't convince me to live anywhere on the west. I would rather make 2x …

build more housing!!!

That's great but you assume that there is a choice. I want to live in a nice city, but I can't. Trillions of dollars, decades of government policies and dozen of agencies with thei…

^ this. The amount of "ultra-luxury" towers going on in my city is way too high. Who the fuck has $800,000 cash? Numbers don't add up.

>> I can't see the use case for a car. I live in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of montreal. Everything I need is literally a five minute walk away in any direction. A bike ge…