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  • There is affordable housing now, just not where you are. Lots of places that are high end now were at one time undesirable low rent places. Brooklyn and the West Side of Hollywood are both communities that originally drew people because of low quality, low cost of living accommodations.

    Look to the rust belt cities that didn’t fully collapse to lead the charge. Detroit is stabilizing while still having low rent areas. Maybe Some places in Ohio and Buffalo NY as well.

    You can buy a full on house in Rochester NY for under 40k but you may not want to live there.

    Barring a calamity, nice places with high rents sort of stay that way. I can’t imagine high cost of loving areas like Boston, Denver , Hawaii or Miami going down for anything other than an asteroid. Prices are high in places that people want to live.



  • Sounds like you live in an expensive pocket, like near beach or a special neighborhood.

    Use google to find gas near you it lists out prices . I was just in garden grove yesterday. Gas was 4.80 to 5.20. If you are driving a sports car that needs premium gas your going to pay more to enjoy more .

    I took my extended family out in garden grove , 7 people for dinner at $130 before tip to a decent sit down place. McDonalds and Taco Bell at 6-10 for a meal.

    Even near Disney in Anaheim prices are better than you listed out. I can grab a full meal at Denny’s for about 12-15.

    When I first moved to ca I lived in a cool community where I could afford rent. Daily life was so expensive I was riding the bus an hour to get groceries.
    Now pay more in rent and less in everything else in a boring place. Moving a few miles will make a difference for you.



  • So I don’t agree with it , but it may have something to do with ‘work’ there is part of Christianity that assigns value to work and that work will be rewarded by god. They are supposed to be works of faith, but some sects of Christianity assigns value to all work.

    So they see riches as a just reward from god for being hardworking and honest. They inherently see riches as a reward for good work and poverty as a punishment for lack of ethic. As well anyone can better their position and get rich by becoming more aligned with god. So bring rich is an outward manifestation of one’s reward from God.

    This is a simplification and extrapolates out a bunch of things.