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I did not choose to have the cost of law school skyrocket.
There is a huge difference between the educated poor and the uneducated poor; the educated poor do not want to live as a minority among the uneducated poor.
I assume you're talking about yourself, when you reference "educated poor"? Who cares if someone has an education? If they've never used it to get themselves out of poverty, they aren't smart. But have obviously clung to the illusion that they're somehow better than those that never got an education, but are still poor?
In general, probably not. If you're extremely poor, you're likely living around people who are extremely uneducated, disabled, or criminal in major cities. In rural areas, more people are poor, so the group of people you're exposed to is more leveled out.
I assume you're talking about yourself, when you reference "educated poor"? Who cares if someone has an education? If they've never used it to get themselves out of poverty, they aren't smart. But have obviously clung to the illusion that they're somehow better than those that never got an education, but are still poor?
Ya, this reminds of a certain perpetually broke person I know with a masters degree that will tell people any chance she can that she has a masters degree. Never did anything with the expensive degree once out of school. Or for whatever reason she couldn't. Don't know, don't care, but always get the impression she considers herself so much smarter than others by the way she talks to most of us.
Housing is only a luxury item if you insist on a luxury home. I've seen enough people start at one price range and go up when they don't like what they originally considered to be affordable. I am talking about livable houses being rejected. It is entirely someones business if they decide to do this, but my point is, just because a luxury home or nicer isn't affordable doesn't mean home ownership is out of reach. Sometimes you have to move to find it, but it is somewhere. I would think it would be the same with rent being too high in one place as opposed to another.
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I agree.
No, I don't think it's easy to simply pick up and move to find a lower COL area. It's not a decision to be made lightly or quickly, especially if one has a family to consider. But...it's a reasonable thing to consider.
Just as it's reasonable to suggest that one's preferences cannot always be indulged, and that's not indicative of something being wrong with the world.
People complain about affordability of my current city (LA) and while a lot of the complaints have some merit, there is a significant portion that's really more about people wanting to be indulged. Like wanting champagne on a beer budget when there's plenty of beer for sale in other stores. They refuse to acknowledge that one can buy a decent home in a decent neighborhood because they'd rather complain about being priced out of their preferred area by the evil 1%ers or foreigners or whomever.
I assume you're talking about yourself, when you reference "educated poor"? Who cares if someone has an education? If they've never used it to get themselves out of poverty, they aren't smart. But have obviously clung to the illusion that they're somehow better than those that never got an education, but are still poor?
It is surprising that more than 800,000 working-age adults with post-secondary education are–in fact–poor.
It challenges our common fundamental belief system about the benefits of higher education. Indeed, we are
left to inquire, how could anyone with a post-secondary education be impoverished?
Housing is only a luxury item if you insist on a luxury home. I've seen enough people start at one price range and go up when they don't like what they originally considered to be affordable. I am talking about livable houses being rejected. It is entirely someones business if they decide to do this, but my point is, just because a luxury home or nicer isn't affordable doesn't mean home ownership is out of reach. Sometimes you have to move to find it, but it is somewhere. I would think it would be the same with rent being too high in one place as opposed to another.
I think a large component of the "affordability" problem in housing is government regulations and mandates that drive up the cost of housing.
Jack Kemp knew a lot about this.
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