Good resource for finding where not to rent, if you have the option.
That's "Low Cost Of Living", right? That's not a synonym for "poor", so I'm not certain such situations actually exist in those metro areas?
It is.
>so I'm not certain such situations actually exist in those metro areas?
Huh?
How is it that people don't know this?
They're not some middle class people who because poor because their only store is a Dean and Deluca.
I guess I'll just be confused as to why we're so eager ITT to follow the lead of someone who admits to working for these landlords and continue to blur the distinction between "this area has a low cost of living" and "poor people live here". The words we use when discussing such issues matter, and this Overton window should go no further in this direction.
Before an edit, the above comment referred to "close-knit religious groups" surrounded by triple parentheses[0]. These are used by white supremacist and anti-Semitic posters to denote or refer to Jews. They are not, to my knowledge, an idiom commonly used in any other context.
If you're going to go there, "kjbfojbejib," remember that editing your post doesn't also edit people's memories. I assume you were just trying to be funny but that kind of humor is not welcome here. Nor is that kind of prejudice, if you were being sincere.
>Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
(I'm a bit torn about pointing this out in this case, but I've seen way too many people falsely accused of bigotry because people chose to interpret comments in a way different from intended. Still, this is clearly a throwaway account).
This looks like a case of the internet snark trope where people use quotation marks to put nasty words in others' mouths, leading to misunderstanding and unfairness. That's why we've long asked users not to do that: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme.... It has never been in the official guidelines but it's been a bit of case law on this site for a long time.
I unequivocally deny any use of “triple parens”. Full stop.
[1] E.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/eu-is-too-whit...
Generally, I have low tolerance for any group that segregates most of their existence from the greater whole - but then demands accommodation from the greater whole. Most Jews, Christians and Muslims do not - but some do - those communities who refuse to participate in broader society are in my mind inherently forfeiting their place at the table - simply put, you cannot expect broader society to accommodate your particular needs if you don't participate in it.
Sounds like the ruling class is a bit agitated that we're noticing what's going on, and wants to misdirect our attention.
Also, could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? You've been breaking them, and we need you to fix that. One thing they ask you not to do is insinuate astroturfing without evidence, as you did in this comment here. Plenty of explanation here: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
More seriously, it looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. A certain amount of politics and ideology is unavoidable with many topics that appear on HN, but when this crosses into being the primary reason why someone uses the site, that user has left the realm of intellectual curiosity and shifted to the battlefield—exactly what we're trying to avoid HN turning into. For that reason, we ban accounts when they cross that line. More explanation on that if anyone wants it: https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme....
I don't think the "ruling class" are so concerned about people "noticing what's going on" that they sent shills to create a couple of green accounts to post on Hacker News. That the rich exploit the poor is not exactly a shocking revelation to anyone.
Certainly, you're not helping keep things focused by implying shills and saboteurs are at work here.
In certain very LCOL urban areas around NYC and Philadelphia, we have individuals with tens of millions of dollars of property spread out among ~$150k buildings.
They inspect their portfolio with armed bodyguards, and they very often own other businesses in the same neighborhoods that throw off money in small but regular amounts: laundromats, bars, clubs.
An an interesting aside, these individuals are almost all involved with close-knit religious groups to which they contribute great deals of capital.