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Re:52-year-old early retiree left the U.S. for Portugal with... by noahtallen on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @03:40PM (#31659145)
I’m not saying this is a good situation. But your attitude is the attitude nearly everywhere. “Don’t move to Seattle; it’s pricing the locals out!” I even see it outside of classic HCOL areas. People in Missoula, MT, a small city in a mostly rural setting, even share the sentiment of not wanting people from, say, Seattle moving there.

As a young person, if everyone approaches the topic with this attitude, where am I meant to live?

The reality is that there is a huge shortage of places to live that are truly great. This isn’t my fault, as I’ve not been alive for long. It’s not my fault for hoping to live somewhere with a good quality of life. Is an isolationist attitude really going to solve the problem?

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Re:52-year-old early retiree left the U.S. for Portugal with... by noja on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:33PM (#31659728)
> I’m not saying this is a good situation. But your attitude is the attitude nearly everywhere.

You appear to be calling on him to lobby his government to do something.

Couldn't someone say the same of you? Why are you not calling on your government to do something about your local problems? Running away from them won't help your own area.

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Re:52-year-old early retiree left the U.S. for Portugal with... by dangus on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @04:46PM (#31659846)
I fail to see the hypocrisy.

The xenophobic attitude exists everywhere, but the solution is never to blame outside people who are following the incentives.

The solution is to have a government that is properly structuring the incentives of society to get the best outcomes for everyone.

If I were (hypothetically) the authoritarian dictator of of Portugal I probably wouldn’t turn away willing immigrants with money to spend, I would just build more housing and ensure that immigrants were assimilating, living there, and paying taxes.

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Re:52-year-old early retiree left the U.S. for Portugal with... by brailsafe on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @05:34PM (#31660353)
I think nearly everyone is lobbying their local gov to help, except those that already own a disproportionate amount of real estate
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