Re:Do you pay the right rent? Compare all rents, all over Eu...
by cableshaft on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @02:18PM
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It had nothing to do with not supporting the US. Me being from the US is fairly irrelevant, I wasn't expecting accurate data, just curious what the equivalent in Europe would be.
What I didn't like was that it assumed that 5% higher than average was like some crazy high percentage and I'm getting totally fleeced and "Ooh snap! We warned you! You totally shouldn't have clicked this link! (except we baited you into it)"
It's the attitude the website presented, not the actual data. And it's constructive in so much as I don't want people to use this site as a guideline on how to communicate with its audience when they make their own websites.
5% of my rent is roughly $50 a month, btw. Not insignificant, but not enough to warrant its tone either. And I don't live in the Bay Area, thanks for making another assumption about me.
Leaving comments along the lines of "I tried it and it sucked because it doesn't support the US" is not, in my opinion, in line with the hacker news civility guidelines -- it's not constructive, especially when "all over Europe" is explicitly mentioned in the post's title. As for site portraying rent prices as "high"... it's all relative; those prices may be high for people in Europe, even though they might be paltry compared to SFBA.