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Indeed. The hardest part these days is getting access to a garage.
I’m constantly surprised how tech folks seem to undervalue the suburbs.
I am surprised semiconductor engineers called it impossible. A cutting edge chip, sure, but a few thousand transistors?
Impossible for a teenager. This isn't like your everyday "kid makes a software startup" stories. He had to source all the machines, go through all the obscure documentation, understand how to test his yield, etc. He built his own photolithography machine ffs. I can't imagine the dedication required to go through this and believe in yourself every step of the way.
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Not in Australia. Even rural is expensive.
How about the following list of 10 cities/towns in Australia with property around 100-300k AUD? https://www.mpamag.com/au/mortgage-industry/guides/what-are-...
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Quite hard to grasp what they are really trying to achieve there. They are building what kind of tools, and for whom?
My take was that a low and slow approach that did not involve the traditional dangerous chemicals was being developed. Currently TSMC etc processes require hydrofluoric acid and other things that can kill you.
The stuff that you don't want to mess with is Silane, which Sam describes as "a toxic and explosive gas".[1]
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I think the key is to have everything delivered to you. Once you figure that out, suburbs are great. Of course, it's not equivalent to being able to walk to places, but I feel the pros outweigh the cons in terms of what you do get from the suburbs.
>”I think the key is to have everything delivered to you.“ This is why we can’t have nice things. We simply can’t rely on a class of workers to dote on us simply because we fancy living in the burbs. The amount of waste just so you can get your instacart. The reality is near 8% mortgages have put suburbs with garages out of reach for almost everyone without a trust fund or selling their startup.
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How about the following list of 10 cities/towns in Australia with property around 100-300k AUD? https://www.mpamag.com/au/mortgage-industry/guides/what-are-...
Here's a write up of number #4: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-18/tara-isolated-rural-b... . There's a reason for that pricing.
#5 Queenstown is also contaminated [2]. It's an interesting place to visit, as the surrounds look like the moon [3], since the contamination stop anything from growing.
The rest could be nice?
[1] https://theconversation.com/lead-poisoning-of-port-pirie-chi...
[2] https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/tasmanian-lakes-metal-c...
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=queenstown+moonscape&tbm=isc...
Indeed. The hardest part these days is getting access to a garage.
But the point I'm going on to make isn't just about how stupid the cost of housing is; it's that the high cost of housing comes with extra costs that we might not even see.
How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things, some of which would genuinely bloom into real advances and ideas and genuine new wealth (by which I don't just mean an income; I mean the creation of wealth) if only they could afford some goddamn space in which to do it, without having to move so far from the existing life they have that pays the bills and keeps them alive and sane (by which I mean to suggest that not everyone has the luxury of moving to where there is cheaper space, if their job and support networks won't move too).
Indeed. The hardest part these days is getting access to a garage.
On that thread, his garage is larger than the entire space I rented for living in when I was his age. But the point I'm going on to make isn't just about how stupid the cost of housing is; it's that the high cost of housing comes with extra costs that we might not even see. How many people would be doing all sorts of neat things, some of which would genuinely bloom into real advances and ideas and genuine new wealth…
Not many, same distribution would apply to that population. Most would scroll tiktok in a larger house.
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I'm in a suburb. Not an expensive one. Downtown is a 20 minute drive in light traffic. Within a 10 minute walk there are office buildings, grocery stores, shopping mall, gyms, parks, hiking and biking trails, etc. There are many cities to choose from; some are better planned than others. Based on your comment I would guess that you've opted to live in one of the "cool" cities in America.
Which city are you in?