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I love that the quote from the government official is “…we’re working to slow job growth…”. I was unaware that was a purpose of government, but it does help explain the Alberta NDP.
Although Steve, 33, […] and Kate, 31 […] will soon relocate 45 miles south to Santa Cruz, a city by the beach where they can afford to purchase a home and eventually raise children.
Sorry, sweetheart, you’ve already left it too late.
Eventually many of those low income jobs will be done by robots. It used to be that you could always find a trailer park in a bigger community where a young family could start out – now all that’s left are over-priced condos. Now low income families work jobs with longer and longer commutes while their gov’ts think up new ways to tax away what little they make because they need to burn more fuel and time just to survive. But undoubtably there’s newly paved mostly unused bike lanes for the local residents. Humanity’s going by the way of the Dodo – and the best part is we’re doing it to ourselves.
They’re whining about an hour commute. Please, spare me.
“you’ve already left it too late”
Daniel, where have you been? People are commonly starting families at almost 40 now. It takes that long to accumulate sufficient funds to pay for the kids. That’s what happens when the government taxes away half of all middle class incomes.
People used to settle down in their 20’s, now they do it in their 30’s. Will we all let things slide until people start families in their 50’s? Maybe so.
Oh NO! You have to live in Santa Cruz! You poor dears!
“People are commonly starting families at almost 40 now. It takes that long to accumulate sufficient funds to pay for the kids”. That’s my family’s story. The people getting elected nowadays don’t care about such trivial details when there’s such a rush to invent the newest hippest save the World from ourselves tax.
People are commonly starting families at almost 40 now. It takes that long to accumulate sufficient funds to pay for the kids.
While that’s certainly true, I’m guessing her Columbia law school tuition (~$70,000/a) would have gone a long way towards a down payment. Plus that year abroad studying in Sydney, Australia.
I don’t think money is the problem here.
Hasn’t Mr. Zuckerberg a spare house for them in his buffer zone?
The irony is that all the good little Bay Area leftists who OWN those $ 2.7 mil. homes DONT WANT any more housing, any more traffic, any more poor people, any more anything. They want things to stay JUST AS THEY ARE. Oh … and they want lots of taxpayer funded mass transit … so their nanny, cook, and gardeners can get to work from cheap neighborhoods in the hinterlands.
Cali cities/towns aren’t issuing building permits because they want less jobs and less homes for those who have jobs.(except for the illegals who are mucho welcome)
It’s all part of the environmental Shangri-La that they’re trying to create. Less houses, less jobs, less water for the people who have houses and jobs, equals less people who are like like like a VIRUS on spaceship Earth!
These Downers prolly voted for this shit ’cause Gang Green variety of Lefties never see the expected consequences of their policies even more than the usual Udopians.
Oh well.
And Phantom? They prolly aren’t concerned about the 1 hour commute, time wise. It’s that they can’t afford a Prius or a Tesla and they are concerned about the environmental impact that a 1 hour commute will have.
Having lived in that area in my younger years, I can tell you that houses in Santa Cruz are only less expensive by comparison….. they are still very expensive. Add to that a commute over the mountains (just small ones) on Highway 17, a deadly highway …. well, I don’t think they’ll find this move to be a satisfying solution.
I left there years ago but have been back occasionally. I barely recognize the area.
Jack London called it the sun kissed Santa Clara valley. Probably one of the richest agriculture areas in the world for pears, cherries, apricots, and other fruits (not that kind). Now paved over with asphalt and covered with ticky tacky tiny houses that wouldn’t be worth $20,000 in the midwest….. but sell for $500,000 and up there.
It’s a mad, mad world.
So a guys moves to Nebraska and another to Colorado cause they can’t afford California. The article makes it sound like its a step backward to live in those places.
My wife and I were both born and raised in small town prairies, educated in Vancouver and returned to small town prairies. We chose that life for the peace, safety, community and affordability.
Wouldn’t trade it for all the silicon in the valley.
Martin B: “People are commonly starting families at almost 40 now. It takes that long to accumulate sufficient funds to pay for the kids”. That’s my family’s story. The people getting elected nowadays don’t care about such trivial details when there’s such a rush to invent the newest hippest save the World from ourselves tax.”
My family’s story as well. Two daughters, married – each with just one child. Both sets of parents are professionals with excellent salaries. The one living on the mainland is renting the top floor of a 70’s style cathedral entrance in Coquitlam and her husband commutes to downtown. That very ho-hum rental house is ‘worth’ about $1.2 million, meaning it’s nearly impossible for them to save enough to purchase ANYWHERE in the lower mainland.
Meanwhile our noble leader Trudeau wants to introduce a ‘soda tax’ that would generate up to an extra billion tax dollars annually, with the excuse that sugar is second only to tobacco in it’s pernicious effects on children. I believe it’s not the input (sugar) that’s the problem but rather the lack of output (healthy playing and exercise) now that every kid has a smart phone in their pocket and an X-Box at home.
They know damn well that the tax will not affect behavior, but it does generate a great cover for yet another reach into our wallet.
I sold my home in Los Altos (next to Palo Alto) for $2.7 million and moved to Colorado. One of the best decisions of my life.