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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:21:15 JST Adrianna Tan

   Someone said he was moving to San Francisco for YC and was looking for a solo 1 bedroom apartment for approximately $1200, $2000 max

   No housemates!

   Ahahaha

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     Chris Petrilli (petrillic@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:22:39 JST Chris Petrilli

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     @skinnylatte does he also have a Time Machine?

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     Jeff Miller (orange hatband) (jmeowmeow@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:24:55 JST Jeff Miller (orange hatband)

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     @skinnylatte Would he be working on a time machine, or on deployable housing units?

     I guess far enough out on BART or the Capitol Corridor, maybe a house trailer in Vacaville?

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:37:08 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • liferstate

     @liferstate for 2.5K to 4K you get to rent a 100 year old 1BR!

     (And there's probably 50 people in the application you have to beat in every listing!)

     https://www.rentalsinsf.com/listings/jr-and-one-bedroom/

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     liferstate (liferstate@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:37:09 JST liferstate

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     @skinnylatte Has he considered moving to Detroit instead?

     On the one hand I'm joking and on the other hand it's a bit shocking to see what money *won't* buy in SF. Whereas for $1200 here you can get a pretty nice 2BR. For $2000, a luxury 1BR in new construction downtown, with all the amenities that implies.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:48:21 JST Adrianna Tan

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     rents are too damn high but there's something there around

     - look at every single 'tier 1' global city (except tokyo)
     - notice how they have similar housing prices (For rent and sale)
     - singapore, hk, sf, nyc, london, auckland, sydney..

     it's all the same

     i think the economy is not only k-shaped, the world is bifurcating into a market where

     people with certain kinds of white collar jobs can afford a certain kind of life

     and in this class, there continues to be tremendous lateral global mobility in which a person who can take a job in any of these places can also move to most of the other places

     but nobody else can

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 06:51:38 JST Adrianna Tan

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     personally. i think it's going to get worse

     if you look at immigration policies for nearly every major country that has traditionally had an inflow of immigration

     we're moving to a world in which i feel immigration is going to be effectively closed except for the top 1% (people in those niche jobs)

     even for spouses of citizens, many of those paths are closing unless the citizens themselves make a high enough amount of money

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 07:21:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • humanadverb

     @humanadverb Japan has a unique example of being very closed to immigration in comparison, and a once in a generation legendary deflation.. not exactly enlightened policy they decided for themselves

     Sure they build more housing but if you compare Singapore / HK with a ton of housing, still similar housing prices as SF maybe even more

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     humanadverb (humanadverb@dice.camp)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 07:21:01 JST humanadverb

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     @skinnylatte You know more about this than me, and since you mention it...

     When I'm going off on a lefty soap box about cost of living and saying "it doesn't have to be this way!" I'll drop that Tokyo exception as an example of how we could be doing better.

     Am I an ignorant asshole for saying that, or is it possible for some of how they do it in Tokyo to be adopted elsewhere? I know it is complicated...

     (...and that I really don't have a handle on any of this, really.)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 21:21:26 JST Adrianna Tan

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     @trademark @humanadverb still not a major immigration destination the way the other cities are

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     trademark (trademark@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 19-May-2026 21:21:27 JST trademark

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     • humanadverb

     @skinnylatte @humanadverb hmm, I thought Japan had relaxed the anti-immigration stance a lot? There were tons of non-japanese workers on my last visit compared to how it used to be.