Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Prices Grew Most

Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by coding123 on Monday June 11, 2018 @11:47PM (#17290569)

This entire thread is so strange to me, if you're spending $750000 per year renting, shouldn't you be buying $750,000 properties once a year instead?

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by manfredo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:09AM (#17290645)

I think the idea that the grandparent commenter was pointing out is that pointing to higher percentages of income going towards rent is an overly simplistic metric. If the percentage of income spent on rent goes from, say, 20 to 40%, but average incomes double then the total amount of post-rent income still went up by 50%.

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by Bud on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:05AM (#17290630)

We're talking about San Francisco. There aren't any $750k properties. ;)

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