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Artificial prices to keep the less desirable minorities out. Seriously, would you really want your maid or pool boy living next door to you? Might as well just do it yourself.
The high cost of living in liberal cities is disgusting. There is no middle class left in these lunatic liberal cities. So much for liberals supposedly being tolerant and compassionate and caring about the poor and the homeless, and the middle class. the middle class and the poor have been priced out of these liberal cities. These liberal cities are full of money worshipping elitists who give a crap about anybody else who can't afford to live in such places. Pretty soon the liberals spreading that cancer around the rest of America and into red states will render everywhere in the country unaffordable. Liberal money-grubbing elitists are cancer to American society. Nothing like an arrogant heartless money-grubbing liberal jacking up all the real estate and housing costs across America.
In any city, any metro area, any locale, it generally holds, that the places with more elaborate and higher-quality amenities, with stronger schools and cleaner parks and so forth, will have some combination of higher housing prices and higher property taxes, more intrusive regulation and a sense of exclusivity. But this is not unique to the Coasts, to big cities or the popular parts of the country. In our “working class” Ohio city and the metro-area anchoring it, the toniest suburban towns with the best schools all have significantly higher housing-costs than do the surrounding areas. Taxes are also higher.
The broader question is not about local variations, but national ones. Compton was mentioned as an example in this thread. Compton is one of the poorest and crime-infested areas in the greater-LA metro area, and yet, houses in lowly and undesirable Compton are twice as expensive as comparable houses in the best and most exclusive of our local towns/suburbs: Oakwood. Oakwood is famous (locally) for its prime schools, elegant dining, impeccably clean streets, strict zoning and snobbish culture. And yet, there it is, more than twice as cheap as Compton.
The real question is, why are the areas in the DC-Boston corridor, and areas immediately hugging the Pacific Coast, so expensive? Even a smallish town on the CA coast, far from SF or LA, will have expensive housing. But even the most economically vibrant city in the Midwest will have moderate housing prices (except for Chicago).
Nice neighborhoods, good schools, safety, shopping, dining, cleanliness, and educated and cultured neighbors are what make them more expensive places to live compared to (especially rural) conservative areas.
Sure doesn't sound like the city of Detroit, which has voted Democrat since 1962.
Redding actually has a higher crime rate than Compton now:
Compton: 3,834 crimes per 100,000 residents
Redding: 4,879 crimes per 100,000 residents
If you've ever been to Redding, you'd know why. It's filled with homeless, meth addicts, opioid addicts and other trashy people. There's no industry to speak of there, just low paying jobs. It's the West Virginia of California.
Because they live in more desirable areas where property is at a premium, make higher salaries and have a higher cost of living?
COL is very logical--I don't know why the OP does not understand.
When a lot of people want to live in the same place (either because it is desirable or because of high paying or plentiful jobs), the cost of living goes up.
There are acres and acres of land in the midwest, plains and west that is really cheap because nobody wants to own it or live on it.
This is not really a difficult thing to figure out.
In any city, any metro area, any locale, it generally holds, that the places with more elaborate and higher-quality amenities, with stronger schools and cleaner parks and so forth, will have some combination of higher housing prices and higher property taxes, more intrusive regulation and a sense of exclusivity. But this is not unique to the Coasts, to big cities or the popular parts of the country. In our “working class” Ohio city and the metro-area anchoring it, the toniest suburban towns with the best schools all have significantly higher housing-costs than do the surrounding areas. Taxes are also higher.
The broader question is not about local variations, but national ones. Compton was mentioned as an example in this thread. Compton is one of the poorest and crime-infested areas in the greater-LA metro area, and yet, houses in lowly and undesirable Compton are twice as expensive as comparable houses in the best and most exclusive of our local towns/suburbs: Oakwood. Oakwood is famous (locally) for its prime schools, elegant dining, impeccably clean streets, strict zoning and snobbish culture. And yet, there it is, more than twice as cheap as Compton.
The real question is, why are the areas in the DC-Boston corridor, and areas immediately hugging the Pacific Coast, so expensive? Even a smallish town on the CA coast, far from SF or LA, will have expensive housing. But even the most economically vibrant city in the Midwest will have moderate housing prices (except for Chicago).
Something about coastal vs. interior. There used to be little beach towns that were lower income, even biker trashy, now they are all gobbled up by the wealthy. I live by a coast, but hardly ever go to the beach so coastal isn't a big deal to me. I'll take a nice quiet mountain town, oh wait those have been gentrified too.
The high cost of living in liberal cities is disgusting. There is no middle class left in these lunatic liberal cities. So much for liberals supposedly being tolerant and compassionate and caring about the poor and the homeless, and the middle class. the middle class and the poor have been priced out of these liberal cities. These liberal cities are full of money worshipping elitists who give a crap about anybody else who can't afford to live in such places. Pretty soon the liberals spreading that cancer around the rest of America and into red states will render everywhere in the country unaffordable. Liberal money-grubbing elitists are cancer to American society. Nothing like an arrogant heartless money-grubbing liberal jacking up all the real estate and housing costs across America.
All this whining and then you guys turn around and blame poor folk for being poor as soon as someone goes at the super rich.
and you only used liberal 8 times in your rant. Shame on you.
Jobs, demand, quality of life, diversity, highly paid and educated population. This is a strange question.
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