Feel like I see a lot of articles about people moving out of higher cost areas to lower cost areas? "Why I Left New York/San Francisco" is a whole genre unto itself.
The process of gentrification you describe is basically what actually happens.
And developers try to build affordable housing near mans…
Feel like I see a lot of articles about people moving out of higher cost areas to lower cost areas? "Why I Left New York/San Francisco" is a whole genre unto itself.
The process of gentrification you describe is basically what actually happens.
And developers try to build affordable housing near mansions all the time, they're just stopped by zoning laws (as I expect you're well aware since you wrote a YIMBY book). The weird thing would be if people tried to build mansions next to affordable housing (instead of vice versa). But people living in mansions are already relatively rich even in their rich neighborhoods, so that doesn't support your thesis.
Yes, though I think Bryan is unfairly excluding a lot of counterexamples if "lower cost of living" is defined out. It might be theoretically possible to move to a lower cost of living area without making the person relatively richer, but I would struggle to think of an example. And talking about moving for "lower cost of living" is politer than saying "I want to feel superior to my neighbors," so I'm not surprised people focus on the former.
Not sure I agree with the premises here.
Feel like I see a lot of articles about people moving out of higher cost areas to lower cost areas? "Why I Left New York/San Francisco" is a whole genre unto itself.
The process of gentrification you describe is basically what actually happens.
And developers try to build affordable housing near mansions all the time, they're just stopped by zoning laws (as I expect you're well aware since you wrote a YIMBY book). The weird thing would be if people tried to build mansions next to affordable housing (instead of vice versa). But people living in mansions are already relatively rich even in their rich neighborhoods, so that doesn't support your thesis.
"People relocate to get a better job, to be closer to family, for a lower cost of a living"
Note that last bit.
Yes, though I think Bryan is unfairly excluding a lot of counterexamples if "lower cost of living" is defined out. It might be theoretically possible to move to a lower cost of living area without making the person relatively richer, but I would struggle to think of an example. And talking about moving for "lower cost of living" is politer than saying "I want to feel superior to my neighbors," so I'm not surprised people focus on the former.