it should be legal to kill people that tell you you need to spend less on avacado toast if you can't afford to live
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@sun even after living in a supposedly disadvantaged area of kansas (that has 5g, walmart, thriving local businesses, and a fresh stream of new colleges students coming in), a trip to hickland really put things into perspective for me. "the greatest country on earth" has a whole class of people that it just forgot about, and not enough emphasis is placed on lifting them out of poverty (obviously intentionally)
@zonk @sun a lot of small towns used to be full of all kinds of people with lots to do, but many are practically in ruins today because most jobs are in the nearest big city now. it's a shame because we have so much land, but I guess the nature of modern jobs prevents people from spreading out more, unless you count gigantic suburbs ringing the expensive or dangerous inner city as
"spreading out".
"spreading out".
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@genmaicha @sun the town i moved to is seeing some people who grew up there move back after they made it in the city. home ownership in eg new york is unattainable to even elites, but small town house prices are actually reasonable. i think the tide will turn and the brain drain to cities will reverse, especially with the rise in remote work and onshoring. people are discovering that there is land out there. and i too, if i make it in life, plan on injecting some money into these small local economies by building my own house. i don't trust the stock market, but i do trust land, because god isn't making any more of it