>>996236Not really. A mortgage on a mcmansion is more than rent in the city. The previous generation were asspained consumer whores who wanted insane floorspace to put all their crap, and thought a 2 bed apartment was "puny" and "impossible to live in". So they bought the biggest fucking house they could get a loan for, even if it cost them a two hour each way daily commute and massive cage related costs. So every member of the family can sit in a separate room and watch separate television screens all day, and be far enough away from one another that you need yell to be heard.
I live in the downtown of a major city just fine on less than 20k a year (I make more than that obviously but why spend if i don't need anything else?) City rent is NOT expensive outside of maybe 3 or 4 astronomically expensive cities. Or hell, god knows that somehow restaurant waiters and convenience store attendants find a way to live in new york city. There are affordable rents, but cagers want giant houses. Then they give "it's expensive" as an excuse, but that was never the real reason because the math and logic don't hold up.
This generation is different. We don't want a ton of crap--our phone and laptop do everything. So there's a flood back into cities, and also a drop in consumer purchases of junk. People buy less, thrift stores are trendy, why? Because we stopped buying to fill the hole, and found living in a decent place was the true solution, not some soulless and sterile burb five thousand miles away from everything. Kids who were raised in the burbs and knew the misery of that isolation now throw everything away to live in a city. And cities are coming back to life.
Being from jersey I know your feel. Half the state commutes to philly, half to jew york shitty. I thought that lifestyle of sitting in a car in absurdly dense 70+ mph traffic every morning and evening was suicide level retarded, so I moved. Fuck that place. One of the worst cager hell holes I've ever been to.
