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 BeetleB on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:30AM (#17290707)

I'm a glad your comment is more nuanced this time. Your original one had:

>Compared to, say, someone making $200,00 post tax and spending only 25% of that on rent it is strictly better.

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Re:Birth Rates Dropped Most in U.S. Counties Where Home Pric... by manfredo on Tuesday June 12, 2018 @12:36AM (#17290726)

I stand by the notion that the first scenario (making $1M and spending $750k in rent) is strictly better than the second. Of course I also agree that making zero dollars and spending $750k in rent is considerably worse than spending $50K rent. But that wasn't part of the original comment.

Essentially, I claimed that Scenario X is better than scenario Y, but now you're saying "but! What if scenario X suddenly becomes scenario Z?".

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