Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
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Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
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Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#2I've written recently on this site about my difficulty in finding a job as a recent college grad, and was bombarded with comments suggesting I relocate. This is precisely why I won't. Income inequality means that those areas are incredibly risky to move to without a nice financial cushion, and with a child on the way, I'm not going to make that risk.
What can be done about regional inequality? Because such economic trends will do nothing but continue to destabilize our country in the future.
Edit: To those downvoting me, can you please explain? I don't understand.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#3I've written recently on this site about my difficulty in finding a job as a recent college grad, and was bombarded with comments suggesting I relocate. This is precisely why I won't. Income inequality means that those areas are incredibly risky to move to without a nice financial cushion, and with a child on the way, I'm not going to make that risk. What can be done about regional inequality? Because such economic t…
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs?
EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work.
If your wife returns to work and you work you’ll need to pay for care and/or rely on family support. If she doesn’t return to work and she’s the one with steady employment then that’s a problem (financially).
Hence my question.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#4This is a sad article with unfortunate subjects. However I'm not convinced that the movement of people from apartments to vehicles is always a "sort of homelessness." I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people. Many of them are doing it to save money, but could live in a home if they chose to.
The real issue, as always, is the absurdly inflated real estate market.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#5I've written recently on this site about my difficulty in finding a job as a recent college grad, and was bombarded with comments suggesting I relocate. This is precisely why I won't. Income inequality means that those areas are incredibly risky to move to without a nice financial cushion, and with a child on the way, I'm not going to make that risk. What can be done about regional inequality? Because such economic t…
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs? EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work. If your wife ret…
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#6I've written recently on this site about my difficulty in finding a job as a recent college grad, and was bombarded with comments suggesting I relocate. This is precisely why I won't. Income inequality means that those areas are incredibly risky to move to without a nice financial cushion, and with a child on the way, I'm not going to make that risk. What can be done about regional inequality? Because such economic t…
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs? EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work. If your wife ret…
Assuming I'm in a "financially precarious situation" is a bit presumptuous. My wife is an employed college grad, and we have much more saved than the average American. We have health insurance, and have already completely paid off the medical bills for her birth. We are fine.
It's still too risky and difficult for us to relocate, though. Our family all lives nearby, so we have a support structure here. My wife has an established career in a low cost of living area. Housing is incredibly cheap. We mesh with the culture here. When I get a job, we'll be able to buy a house pretty easily. It's just tough for me to get an IT job, because most low level positions have been outsourced in my area.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#7I can’t help but think of Snow Crash where Hiro Protagonist (and many others) lived in the U-Store-It former storage facility.
This is the the real cost of allowing (particularly foreign) capital to be parked in real estate in the developed world. In NYC for example most new developments are ultra-luxury not because building affordable apartments is uneconomic, it’s just that the ultra-luxury end is way more profitable.
But sure let’s just pass a massive tax cut for the wealthy instead at a time when corporations are making record profits.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#8This is a sad article with unfortunate subjects. However I'm not convinced that the movement of people from apartments to vehicles is always a "sort of homelessness." I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people. Many of them are doing it to save money, but could live in a home if they chose to. The real issue…
> I personally know people who are planning to move into a van to work remote, and there's definitely no shortage of blogs and instagrams from those people.
This is a very small minority. Even 10 years ago this was a hot topic in the communities concerned. I lived in Venice Beach at that time: People being force out of their homes into their cars or RVs, police harassing them and finally even suicides were a daily topic within the local community.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#9I've met tenured computer science professors at UC Santa Barbara who couldn't afford to live in Santa Barbara. That place is nuts. Similar situation with Stanford and Palo Alto.
Re: Living in a parking lot in Santa Barbara
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Serious question: why are you having children in such a financially precarious situation when it’s only going to increase your living costs? EDIT: by “financially precarious” I mean that above you said you were a new grad having difficulty finding work. I assume it is your intent to work after the baby is born (rather than being the primary caregiver) or it wouldn’t matter so much about finding work. If your wife ret…
Not everyone "decides" to have kids. Sometimes it just happens.
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