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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by eru on Saturday February 20, 2016 @12:25AM (#11139018)
Why? If foreigners want to buy stuff, we call that exports. Just produce more of the stuff they want to buy. Ie build more apartments (= higher houses) in SV.
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by nickgrosvenor on Saturday February 20, 2016 @12:45AM (#11139072)
It doesn't work like that with housing, it's not a widget, it's fixed (to some degree)
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by eru on Saturday February 20, 2016 @02:28AM (#11139268)
Why? Especially SV has lots of tiny bungalows were you could build skyscrapers.
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by KannO on Saturday February 20, 2016 @07:06AM (#11139782)
Mostly local red tape, zoning laws, and NIMBYism
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Re:Secondary shops flooded with unicorn sellers by eru on Saturday February 20, 2016 @08:49AM (#11140009)
Yes. And that's the problem. Not the foreigners.
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