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Did this change as Apple got bigger and then fell on hard times? Also are you adding those proper quotation marks by hand?
I made the post from my iPad. I suspect it did the quotes. Let's "try" it from my computer... Nowadays, people sneer at me for "working for The Man." Being an Apple programmer has meant many years of being sneered at. No way to win...
I love Satya’s Microsoft. But every time Microsoft tries to copy Apple they have failed miserably. I wish they don’t and instead focus on their strengths. But you never know, Satya’s proven us wrong on several occasions. So maybe this time is different?
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Is it? Sounds orthogonal to the population, as the city could just expand vertically (more highrises/scyscrapers) or horizontally (more land).
Haven't Tokio already done both?
Regarding horizontal growth, there are plenty of places in the Tokyo metro area being redeveloped horizontally, such as the Musashi-Kosugi area of Kawasaki, which is just a 20 minute train ride on regular commuter trains like the Tokyu Toyoko Line and the JR Shonan-Shinjuku Line to Shibuya, a major hub in Tokyo. Over the past 15 years there has been a lot of development of high-rise residences in the area. Futako-tamagawa is another area of Tokyo that has seen much horizontal growth, starting with the Rise shopping center and nearby high-rise residences that opened around 2011. Rakuten moved its headquarters from Shinagawa to Futako-tamagawa sometime in the late 2010s, which has further boosted the desirability of Futako-tamagawa and neighboring areas such as Mizonokuchi just across the river in Kawasaki.
Disclaimer: I live near Silicon Valley but I travel to Japan roughly once every other year.
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Being rotten, never stopped anyone. The biggest problem is that money can get easily into China, but not so easily out of it.
They love to export goods, so it's still easy enough. That will have complications in the future, but that's the next generations issue, not the person making the decision today that wants a nice bonus.
So it's in fact hard to get money out of china.
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263632/trade-balance-of-...
[2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/220041/total-value-of-us...
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> Tokyo’s population has increased 50% over the last twenty years and property prices have been flat That's because most live in glorified living room space, and many in "comfortable elevator" size houses...
Even hotel rooms are in Tokyo are tiny compared with US hotel rooms.
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That's the compromise you have to make to live in the biggest city in the world (metro population: 37 million people).
Is it? Sounds orthogonal to the population, as the city could just expand vertically (more highrises/scyscrapers) or horizontally (more land).
Can you imagine moving to the Bay Area in the 80s? To grow up when land was still cheap, before college competition was cutthroat and unaffordable, when relatively simple competence could get you a solid job and VC/PE firms weren't plundering and incentivizing the latest 30-second attention-span app to reach $1B? It would be me living in Los Altos now, instead of the old rich people who I curse for refusing to die or…
there's always an untapped place somewhere. in the 80s people were saying this about someplace else probably.
Other areas that are intriguing to me include San Luis Obispo County and some of Southern California's exurbs like the Antelope Valley area and Lake Elsinore, where it's possible to buy a nice single-family house in a safe neighborhood for less than $500,000.
California gets a bad rap in some circles due to its high cost of living and its taxes, but not everywhere in California has the Bay Area's high housing costs. There are many other areas of the state where people can still reasonably make a day trip to the Bay Area to enjoy its amenities while living in a place that is affordable on an average engineer's salary.
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They love to export goods, so it's still easy enough. That will have complications in the future, but that's the next generations issue, not the person making the decision today that wants a nice bonus.
When they export, money gets in. But they don't import much , if you look at china's trade balance, it's at + 421 billion dollars [1] (money going in) while USA is at -616 B [2]. So it's in fact hard to get money out of china. [1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/263632/trade-balance-of-... [2] https://www.statista.com/statistics/220041/total-value-of-us...
If your think that surplus is a lot, then 5 times that is definitely not "they don't import much"
Can you imagine moving to the Bay Area in the 80s? To grow up when land was still cheap, before college competition was cutthroat and unaffordable, when relatively simple competence could get you a solid job and VC/PE firms weren't plundering and incentivizing the latest 30-second attention-span app to reach $1B? It would be me living in Los Altos now, instead of the old rich people who I curse for refusing to die or…
I moved to the Bay Area in '84, bought a house in ~89 - house prices had just run up to what people considered then as high levels - Real Estate then leveled out and stopped rising for half a decade - it's done that on and off for 40 years - it was never 'cheap' at the time. Prop 13 was already in place in '84 - the only way to get rid of it is to vote it out, it's long past time