• Cryophilia@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There is nowhere that is affordable unless you have a well paying work from home job and you can get a big city salary in a small town. Cheap places have cheap jobs.

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      1 year ago

      Lol that is an outright lie. There are so many places you can live affordably in the US… but people think they need to live in Manhattan and shit

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        1 year ago

        Cheap places have cheap jobs. It’s econ 101. Wages and prices will reach a similar equilibrium everywhere, though obviously there will be a few statistical outliers in both directions, in most cases given free movement of people, housing will cost the same relative to local salaries.

        Remote work is the only thing shaking up this equation.