It&#x27;s more interesting to me how many people think money should, and inevitably will, trump all other interests.<p>Maybe if you&#x27;re a 20-something programmer uprooting your entire life to live somewhere else after decades in a location because financial pressures outside your control make your home and everywhere near it impossible to afford that&#x27;s not such a big deal.<p>But for fuck&#x27;s sake, think about this for a second. Most people <i>do</i> have things rooting them to a particular location. Maybe it&#x27;s a social circle. Maybe it&#x27;s support network. Maybe it&#x27;s their career, or their children&#x27;s schooling, or their health and the local climate.<p>At the end of the day we as a populace get to decide public policy. Taking people being priced out of their homes as fait accompli because them&#x27;s the market breaks is heartless enough, but then saying disdainful things about just how painful and difficult it is is worse.