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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:37:52 JST Adrianna Tan

   Got two videos recommended to me:

   - Thai young person can’t afford US$120 rent in Bangkok
   - Americam digital nomad showing off her ‘cheap life hack, a US$500 condo in Bangkok’

   These two things are related

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:43:50 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Dan McDonough

     @danluvsbeer oh yeah digital nomads have totally fucked up their housing

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     Dan McDonough (danluvsbeer@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:43:51 JST Dan McDonough

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     @skinnylatte Yeah I was thinking that same thing last year when I was reading about Portugal maybe ending golden visas at the same time I was reading that the average age at which Portuguese people move out of their parents' home is 34.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:49:54 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • grechaw

     @grechaw definitely a link. Bring in a bunch of bros who think they’re the smartest. The only people who can live there are people like them. There’s a complete lack of socialization with people not like them

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     grechaw (grechaw@sfba.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 09:49:55 JST grechaw

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     @skinnylatte I've been thinking a lot about the tech bus era in SF these days, and its relationship to right wing tech broism. Hopefully not too irrelevant an observation... seems similar.

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     Shafik Yaghmour (shafik@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 11:47:29 JST Shafik Yaghmour

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     @skinnylatte

     💯 related.

     Housing costs can be moved dramatically by a small amount of people with a lot of money. We saw this happen all over the US during covid. Folks don't really get this drives up everything b/c if you think about it rents affects businesses and they have to raise prices to keep up, so up goes groceries, supplies, eating out, movies etc

     Two examples:

     https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Tech-workers-moving-Palm-Springs-17229077.php

     and

     https://thehill.com/homenews/3909339-yes-it-is-remote-workers-who-spiked-housing-rent-costs-study/

     I tried to find a larger study of this but was not successful. I need to look again one of these days.