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pcloweslast Thursday at 4:39 AM1 replyview on HN

NYC is fairly high density. Has stopped building massive new skyscrapers and has water on two sides. It is also a tier 1 global city culturally AND economically. Its not really reasonable to expect to be affordable.


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mmoosslast Thursday at 4:19 PM

It's been affordable for many generations, a destination for opportunity for the poorest people, including immigrants. It's only recently that things have become so absurd.

> water on two sides

Do you mean Manhattan, one of the five boroughs? It's an island.

> stopped building massive new skyscrapers

When? Why?