Re:Proposed Oklahoma skyscraper gets redesign to become USA'...
by subsubzero on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @06:00PM
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You are 100% spot on, I mentioned this in another comment I made and our housing crunch recently (past 8 years or so) is all due to human nature(and also a huge inflow of money). You can buy cheap houses in a majority of America but most people(on HN especially) want to live in superstar locations like SF bay area, coastal areas, mtn towns etc. Its a classic human nature problem and not a infrastructure problem. In addition you have trillions of dollars of money from venture and disrupted legacy industries(see tech giants bringing in hundreds of billions) flowing into these few places and people are surprised when an average house price in San Mateo county hits $1.8M!
Hardly anybody on HN wants to live in "the sticks" and you can build houses there pretty cheaply.
Housing prices can almost always be solved by moving, but people don't want to do that.
(To be fair, they're usually talking about moving from single family homes to allowing small apartment buildings of 4-20 units, not moving from single family homes to towering skyscrapers.)