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A comment on Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of housing in San Francisco. Parent comment

Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by antisthenes on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:08PM (#16100606)
> Instead of playing the housing bubble game, my wife and I commute in 60+ minutes each way. Partly because it enables us to raise our kids in a neighborhood with young families. But also just out of spite.

Who exactly is being spited here when you waste 10% of your life sitting in a car 'commuting' ?

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Re:Stanford paper says rent control is driving up cost of ho... by rayiner on Monday January 08, 2018 @04:23PM (#16100723)
Each buyer that refuses to bid on an inner-suburb house drives the market price down by some real, but infinitesimally small, amount. Symbolic, sure, but I can't in good conscience bid some split level in a 1950s Levittown development up to $600k.
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