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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t understand people who say there is no affordable housing in a city that is one top ten markets in the richest country in the world. Go get a job that pays more or commute like the rest of the 7 billion people on the planet. What makes you so special? Go big or go home. That’s life in the city.[/quote]

Sanity.[/quote]
Agree. It's this entitlement mentality being promoted by liberals.

I never lived in the city proper.  Middle-class college graduate, but still couldn't afford it. I always lived in Maryland or Virginia suburbs and took the metro in. I didn't complain that there was nothing "affordable" in downtown DC.

Same thing with Manhattan. Middle class people can't afford to live there (only the rich who pay full fare or poor who get subsidized by taxpayers). They live in an outer borough or Long Island and take the train (or ferry) into Midtown.

What ever happened to the concept of living where you can afford? [/quote]

P.S. Reminds me of the debate that took place in my suburb a couple of years back. I live in an affluent part of the county, with lots of restaurants and shops, and liberals were complaining that the waiters and retail clerks couldn't afford to live close to their jobs (meaning they couldn't walk to them). When I suggested that there are plenty of garden apartments two miles down the road and they could take the bus in, some liberal said that it would be inconvenient for them and then asked snarkily "would YOU like to have to take the bus?"

Well, besides the fact that I HAVE taken the bus to work (bus to metro), what's this new deal with saying that low-income should get to live just as well as middle-income? If middle-income people don't enjoy any better lifestyle than low-income, what's the point of working yourself up to that level? [/quote]

There is no point. That’s the point of liberals. They’d like life to be easy and equal for everyone. As long as they get to make all the rules. Of course that’s fantasy.[/quote]

:roll: [/quote]

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