[–] 1 point 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (6 children)

I just looked up housing sites in the US, apparently Zillow is popular. Texas is a big state and stuck my house price in as an upper limit.

First result is fucking huge. It has more bathrooms than I have bedrooms. And its in a place I have heard of despite living on another continent. Most people 50+ miles away will have never even heard of the town I live in.

This is what you consider to be a bad housing market?

Edit: scrolling through more. They look very soulless, but are fucking massive. Why do so many have the garage door as the main front and centre of the house with the actual door tucked off to the side?

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  • [–] 11 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

    Couldn't they also just not do that? Surely the law doesn't require them to hire someone to police the toilets.

    Gender neutral toilets could also get around it surely. Worked in multiple places with them and no one has ever cared.

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  • [–] 4 points 12 hours ago

    School put me off going to uni. I don't need to spend even more hours learning about the fucking benefits and drawbacks of token ring networks.

    Government tripling the cost of uni compared to the year before me was also a lot of it. Didn't learn to drive because insurance alone was £2k which I didn't have. Now you want me to spend £9k a year? Haha, nope.

    They tried to make it sound better by saying its like the cost of going to Starbucks every day. That put me off Starbucks too.

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  • [–] 5 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

    I was thinking that. Its way above the minimum wage in the UK and we bought a house a few years ago on that just fine.

    Not even that low cost of an area really, just cheaper than around London. Move away from the big cities and its much more affordable. Why would you want to live in a big city anyway with the higher air pollution? Not getting a car also helped save a lot of money, cycle everywhere instead.

    "I need to live in London because of the jobs!" - You stack shelves in Tesco, that isn't a job worth living in London for.

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