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Horatio Parker, are you from Sweden?
Horatio Parker, are you from Sweden?
Are you saying you will be passing other random stuff from Sweden just because there are swedes in here?Horatio Parker, are you from Sweden?
No, Michigan.
I passed it on because I knew there were Swedes here.
Sweden has a system to encourage people to move away from big cities. Sweden has zero housing shortage outside the big cities. I have no clue why Sweden has this policy, but it's by design. Yes, I hate it to.
When it comes to eduction... we're fine. We're somewhere above France and Spain and below the UK and USA. And we're all below Japan and Russia. Russia inherited and excellent educational system from USSR, one of the few things communist countries do right. And Japan has a culture where you're fucked if you don't get a uni degree. I don't get the fixation with being best in the world. I'm happy as long as we're not way below. We're mid-field. We've been mid-field since they started measuring in the 70'ies. I'm happy about that. We do have something to be proud of though. Education is free. So whether or not you have a degree is not a class-marker in Sweden. I think that is awesome.
I'll give you poor integration of immigrants. We suck at that.
And our unemployment rate is 7.9 which is bad. But it's not a disaster. Also, easily fixed by liberalising employment laws IMHO.
And I don't have faith in our politicians, I despise them.
Maybe not you, but Swedes in general obviously do. Faith in politicians can be measured in how healthy public debate is. People who despise politicians give up and stop discussing politics... because there's no point.
And faith in our financial system is not the same thing as faith in our politicians.
Are you saying you will be passing other random stuff from Sweden just because there are swedes in here?No, Michigan.
I passed it on because I knew there were Swedes here.
It's not design, it's just that not enough apartments get built. Might have something to do with that there are many rules surrounding it, and that certain people get upset whenever anything changes in the city.
When it comes to eduction... we're fine. We're somewhere above France and Spain and below the UK and USA. And we're all below Japan and Russia. Russia inherited and excellent educational system from USSR, one of the few things communist countries do right. And Japan has a culture where you're fucked if you don't get a uni degree. I don't get the fixation with being best in the world. I'm happy as long as we're not way below. We're mid-field. We've been mid-field since they started measuring in the 70'ies. I'm happy about that. We do have something to be proud of though. Education is free. So whether or not you have a degree is not a class-marker in Sweden. I think that is awesome.
I'm talking about our elemntary education, which regularly gets trashed by PISA and OECD. Our university education is mostly fine.
Ehm, you think our public debate is sane?
"Hyrestaket". Rent control is idiotic. It has never worked in any city it has been implemented. It's a money-for-nothing law where house builders are supposed to build houses out of generosity, rather than for profit. It's retarded.
They are focused on deterrence.And another thing which swedes suck at is catching russian submarines
Dumb russian don't speak english and in russian it merely says "Welcome to Sweden"It clearly does not work and I know why - submarines can't see.
It also transmits the message via morse code.
"Hyrestaket". Rent control is idiotic. It has never worked in any city it has been implemented. It's a money-for-nothing law where house builders are supposed to build houses out of generosity, rather than for profit. It's retarded.
Yeah. Berkeley and Santa Monica are wastelands/Oops
Yeah. Berkeley and Santa Monica are wastelands/Oops
I never claimed it turns cities into wastelands. There are regulations that could be better or worse. Rent controls do not fix the problem they're designed to fix. Rent control has always been a short term solution when it is implemented. But it always leads to a drop-off in new building projects. It moves production to other types of houses that aren't rent controlled. It just creates pointless weirdness and asymmetry in the market without adding any benefit to anybody. Just makes it a head-ache to find a place to live. Cities without rent control don't have that problem.
I never claimed it turns cities into wastelands. There are regulations that could be better or worse. Rent controls do not fix the problem they're designed to fix. Rent control has always been a short term solution when it is implemented. But it always leads to a drop-off in new building projects. It moves production to other types of houses that aren't rent controlled. It just creates pointless weirdness and asymmetry in the market without adding any benefit to anybody. Just makes it a head-ache to find a place to live. Cities without rent control don't have that problem.
It depends. New York has had RC since WWII, tho the system is shrinking. Here it's still a housing emergency, with something like 2% vacancy. Without it, no middle or lower income people could live in Manhattan. Real estate is the number one investment here, and the landlord lobby is very powerful.
It depends. New York has had RC since WWII, tho the system is shrinking. Here it's still a housing emergency, with something like 2% vacancy. Without it, no middle or lower income people could live in Manhattan. Real estate is the number one investment here, and the landlord lobby is very powerful.
New York is the poster-child for the dysfunctionality of rent-control, with key money being standard when moving in. Why should we create a system where people who can't afford the actual value of a thing get it for less so they can afford it? The geography of a flat has actual value. Cities without rent-control are more dynamic. People more around more. They develop different centers depending on what jobs you have. Yes, the poor get the shittest apartment in the worst geographical areas, but that's mostly true in a rent-controlled system as well. The poor can't pay required money under the table.
I live in a rent controlled flat in the centre of Stockholm. I had to pay 300 000 SEK (35 000 USD) to the previous tenants to get the contract. That is standard in Stockholm. I'm not poor. Not at all.
I'd argue that rent control does nothing for equality. If a commodity has limited availability people are going to pay what it's worth, one way or another. Every system with rent control has figured out ways around it for people to pay what a flat is worth anyway.
New York is the poster-child for the dysfunctionality of rent-control, with key money being standard when moving in. Why should we create a system where people who can't afford the actual value of a thing get it for less so they can afford it? The geography of a flat has actual value. Cities without rent-control are more dynamic. People more around more. They develop different centers depending on what jobs you have. Yes, the poor get the shittest apartment in the worst geographical areas, but that's mostly true in a rent-controlled system as well. The poor can't pay required money under the table.
I live in a rent controlled flat in the centre of Stockholm. I had to pay 300 000 SEK (35 000 USD) to the previous tenants to get the contract. That is standard in Stockholm. I'm not poor. Not at all.
I'd argue that rent control does nothing for equality. If a commodity has limited availability people are going to pay what it's worth, one way or another. Every system with rent control has figured out ways around it for people to pay what a flat is worth anyway.
I don't think you know what you're talking about.
I've lived here for 30 years, and granted I'm on the lower end of the socio-economic scale, but I've never paid key money, and don't know anyone who has, except one friend who once slipped a super $50 to take over a studio(and on 31st st and Brdwy).
You may be confused over rent control and rent stabilization. There are very few apts left in full RC. I would expect key money to be common in those situations, because those rents are very low. OTOH, they would pretty much all be scamming, because technically RC apts can only legally go to family members.
There's plenty of construction going on, and it's quite a dynamic place. I suggest picking another poster child.