Our self imposed scarcity of nice places

Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by throw0101a on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:03PM (#29111206)

Those houses—actually the land that they're built on—are expensive nowadays because living in the urban city is cool again.

Up until ~2000 it was not so, because living in the city was for immigrants and all the WASPs moved into the innter/outer suburbs with their white picket fences. The area of the links is where the Poles concentrated; to the west were the Ukrainians; to the east is Little Portugal (then onto Chinatown); to the north-east is Little Italy. Toronto is a good example of what Jane Jacobs saying 'you don't live in a city, but in a neighbourhood':

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_neighbourhoods_in_Toro...

And the reason why Toronto (SW Ontario) is so expensive, especially since 2015, is because we've had so much immigration in the region, but housing hasn't kept up by pure volume (regardless of density or other factors).

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Re:Our self imposed scarcity of nice places by ghaff on Thursday November 04, 2021 @03:59PM (#29111850)

Basically over the course of about 20 years, college educated twenty somethings decided they liked living in the city. When I graduated from grad school, aside from those working in Manhattan, almost none of my cohort moved to a city.

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