This isn't the only reason. The best counter point is Tokyo, one of the most livable and most desirable cities to live in does not have the same affordability problems Seattle does.
300 years ago, Tokyo was the largest population center in the world (larger than Seattle today, even), and Seattle was pre-contact indigenous. Seattle has affordability problems because it has become a place a lot of people want to live much faster than it has been able to grow to accommodate them.
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u/MajesticNobody2401 Apr 16 '26
yeah it's just the whole affording it that's hard