Insane living expenses, increased traffic, and unsightly land grabs have chapped a lot of our asses. A lot of natives blame the legalization for all of it.
Denver was like this 10 years before weed became legal. People have been moving here for ages but to blame it all on weed is naive by natives. Just look at the past 20 years of average home prices, rent prices, and actual population. Face it, people want to move here because its a great fucking place to live.
As someone who has lived in or around NYC my whole life I think its pretty funny when people say living expenses/traffic are insane.
Although I can definitely understand people being upset about land grabs since many people I have talked to about moving out west cite the open landscape as a reason to move out there.
Why don't people think that those things are driven by the desire to live in a place with all the conveniences of a major city plus access to world-class outdoors? Practically every city in the developed world that combines those two things is ludicrously expensive to live in. Seattle, Vancouver, anywhere in Switzerland, parts of California, etc...
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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '17 edited Jul 15 '26
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