re: Is the "housing shortage" overblown?

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Where this whole "big cities used to be really nice but now they're shite holes" narrative is coming fron is beyond me.

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Between having small kids and Covid we haven’t traveled a whole lot, but almost every city we go to with some regularity has improved. Got family in Greenville, SC and that place has exploded. Same with the downtown area of Richmond, VA.

The only city that we go to that’s worse today than 30 years ago is Huntington , WV. That place got hit real hard with an aging population, brain-drain, and opioids. And I think it may have improved a little over the past five years.

I haven’t witnessed this “cities are shitholes” personally. I’ve seen the opposite