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I would work remotely from a small town, away from the fast life of urban areas. Property costs are significantly lower, as with crime and traffic. Possibilities include somewhere on the DelMarVa peninsula. Constraints include 50+ Mbps internet and a newer house without asbestos/lead paint.
So while trafiic may be better and certain violent crimes lower, rural crime is a serious issue; specifically property crime.
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Also depends on when you started renting. I know people paying $700 a month in SF for a one bedroom but they moved here over a decade ago.
Also people who bought houses long ago pay almost no property tax. Prop 13 is rent control for landowners.
[0]: There's a slight tilt towards owners (54%). If property prices continue to become less affordable, it seems reasonable there will be less owners in the future. https://datausa.io/profile/geo/california#housing
I may be the only person left who loves San Francisco. Just got back from biking from my house through Golden Gate Park past the De Young and Cal Academy to Cliff House and down Ocean Beach. There was sunshine and people were outside. In different circumstances, there are people dancing on roller skates, learning tango, and skateboarding. Near our house there is a great Russian Bakery, tons of Chinese restaurants on…
That sounds as if you visited SF for the first time...very good speech for tourism.I have been in Bay Area for 13 years, single, with GF, and now with kids. Good luck with the high real state prices and if you can afford it, is probably overvalued, homeless, drug addicts, lack of good public transportation and Infrastructure (no high speed trains). My take i would live in London.
Outside the US, definitely. Berlin sounds pretty cool.
Just curious, why outside of us? Trump? Too expensive?
The social safety nets is not so much for myself, but being surrounded by others who are struggling is unpleasant but also leads to societal issues overall (crime hotspots, etc).
I long ago decided that settling in the USA would be great if I ever magically become rich, but until then since I have no roots in the area it's nice to visit but I'm not sure I'd stay. One definite benefit though is that the states vary a lot in culture and feel so you can probably find an area that suits you.
I may be the only person left who loves San Francisco. Just got back from biking from my house through Golden Gate Park past the De Young and Cal Academy to Cliff House and down Ocean Beach. There was sunshine and people were outside. In different circumstances, there are people dancing on roller skates, learning tango, and skateboarding. Near our house there is a great Russian Bakery, tons of Chinese restaurants on…
Yeah everyone loves those things too, they just don't want to deal with the cost and quality of life from the homeless/drug problem. I walked up to beautiful Corona Heights today and saw all of the amazing views, but then I walked home past the ever-increasing numbers of tents popping up on the street to my overpriced apartment in the mission where I currently have to listen to one mentally disabled homeless person s…
All the “unlanded” are sharecroppers, some better paid than others. Time for some solidarity among the renter class.
This is the dream for many of those who left their relatives in another country from the lack of opportunities, and are seeing people they love getting older far away from them. I would certainly take the first flight to my country and try to stay close to those I love the most before it is too late.
Me too. I thought I’d stay in the USA forever but the call of home is getting stronger. The way things are right now I think it’d be a final decision as I’d be unlikely to get status again. Either that or finally go for citizenship before that door slams too.
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I see your point. For sure, the country's situation changed a lot since the 90s. It is also very common to dismiss any russians who are critical of power to have "western eyes", as if you couldn't be russian and have issues with your government. This mentality was already present in soviet times. You seem to say that you gain immediate affinity with russians for having the same "orthodox" mindset, yet you are ready t…
I just meant to say that the majority of the world is tuned into the Western media machine, including Russians, so they have a tendency to evaluate every country based on Western metrics such as GDP-per-capita and LGBTQ-friendliness. I think these statistics are misleading because they fail to capture a lot of the nuance and quality of life that is found in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world. But sure, there i…
I have been myself quite surprised by how Americans or Europeans seem to think that eastern europe is backwards on every level based on how they judge russian government.
One stupid example is : someone believed that all soviet made devices were bad quality, when actually a lot were manifactured without the idea of planned obsolescence built-in, which made them very durable. But they had a bias for everything russian being shitty because it is supposed to be a backwards country, and didnt consider different metrics to evaluate things.
I largely agree that there is a huge amount of caricature being made about russia, but I would also argue that the government is partly at fault for that because of the monolithic image they try to project. They erase all nuance about russian people and life in the country on purpose.