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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by sqldba on Monday February 06, 2017 @05:09AM (#13578120)
People live in suburbs and use automobiles though - and the price of houses in suburbs is still too expensive to buy (unless you're talking > 1-2 hour of travel time per day).

Boonies aside (that's not the suburbs, that's literally in the middle of nowhere, and in a work environment where more and more managers don't allow remote-work), I don't think your argument holds water.

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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by pc86 on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:23AM (#13579614)
I live in a suburb where you can see the downtown buildings from our front porch. I could walk if I wanted to. Our mortgage is roughly 25% more expensive than our rent was when living downtown, including the property taxes.

I think a lot of people on HN would do well to remember that any time you're discussing real estate, places like NYC and San Francisco are very much the exception, not the rule.

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Re:The High Cost of a Home Is Turning American Millennials i... by vonmoltke on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:10AM (#13579513)
What suburbs are you talking about? I know people who have chosen to live way the hell out and give themselves a nasty commute, but price was rarely the driver.

As for travel time, unless you are really lucky I don't think it is possible to consistently have less than 1 hour of travel time per day unless you move house every time you change jobs. Even in NYC moving just a few blocks can add or subtract 15 minutes to your commute.

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