Comment on Life is unfair to landlords

• ptu@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  International investment firms and boomers have been hoarding apartments. Some smaller cities and their ourskirts can be surprisingly cheap.

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  • gradual@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As usual, people who have lived in major cities their entire lives will say “that’s not good enough” for them.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not all my life, nor even that major a city (just under 100k population), but that’s where the jobs are. If I were to move to Sweden it would probably be Göteborg to work at Volvo, or Stockholm to work at some tech company. As a foreigner I don’t know the language or the tech job scene enough to pull off some small town.

      I was actually born in a much smaller town, bored as hell as a teenager, my peers’ (obviously not everyone, but a lot of kids) daytime activities included booze, drugs and crime. Pretty much everyone escaped after high school, many after middle school. That’s not the kind of environment I prefer living in. The ~100k population range is decent, there’s places to go, things to do, it’s walkable (since we’re in Europe, not US), but if you want to drive out of the city, it’s 10 minutes to the city limit and then you’re gone.

      Now if there’s a decent tech scene in like Jönkoping or Lund or somewhere, I’d be delighted to hear about that. But for the most part, those aren’t places you hear about, nor do they pop out much in job search sites. I’m not picky either, I don’t need to work at some big megacorp, a promising startup with an interesting product would be better even.

      I’m not looking to move in the next few years anyway, but Sweden is a country I’m interested in, as is Norway.

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