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[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

😮‍💨 I understand too well. "Average" single family homes in my area were like $400,000, now it's $820,000. Rents for single bedroom apartments went from about $800-900 month to $1,600+ per month. I live in a town of about 65,000 in the Rockies, middle of nowhere, like minimum 5 hour drive to a city with more than a million people, yet somehow, people are still flocking here from all across the country.

[–] aStonedSanta@lemm.ee 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Do you have fiber internet and legal weed?

Edit: lmao wrote free weed at first.

[–] gallopingsnail@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 7 months ago

Yep, probably why people end up here instead of the more conservative shitholes.

[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

We need to tax big corporations and use it to fund public housing at a rate of one unit per 1000 residents in every Big City to small town in this country, and that's the minimum amount some areas will need much more