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A comment on Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents. Parent comment

Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by triceratops on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:12PM (#47434444)
It isn't splitting hairs. The numbers actually matter.
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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by TimorousBestie on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:17PM (#47434468)
It’s at risk of becoming a fractal of splitting hairs. Substituting your numbers in for theirs doesn’t change much. It’s still more expensive to rent.

Kind of an unhelpful tangent to the discussion, really.

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by triceratops on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @11:21PM (#47434499)
> Substituting your numbers in for theirs doesn’t change much

You can buy a boat for $10 or rent one for $9. Assuming you really want a boat, would you buy or rent? Do my numbers reflect reality? Do they have a bearing on the choice you make?

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Re:Austin's Surge of New Housing Construction Drove Down Rents by Dylan16807 on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:37AM (#47436090)
It changes a TON whether you pay 2x for renting or whether you pay 1.05x.

Renting has annoyances but it also has flexibility. A flat "more expensive" is staring at one tree and missing the whole forest of tradeoffs. Way more people would choose to spend $50/month for that flexibility versus $700/month.

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