I didn't look very closely at how these were scored, but I'm shocked to see more than one or two markets less affordable than SF.
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50 sats \ 6 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 May
I presume that affordability is related to average incomes and San Francisco at least has very high wages.
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39 sats \ 5 replies \ @k00b OP 17 May
That would do it. For sure Honolulu's main industry is tourism. It'd be so cool to try and turn one of those islands into a tech or manufacturing center though.
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100 sats \ 4 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 May
Manufacturing just wouldn't make logistical sense. I know Hawaii appears to be right in-between America and Asia on a flat map, but it's actually super far out of the way when you look at the great circle paths. They also have to import almost all of their energy.
Tourism and wealthy retirees are the natural market, plus some specialty crop agriculture.
Hawaii is actually used for a lot of ag research. Because of the long growing year, they can do several harvests per year rather than just one, which speeds up field trial work.
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22 sats \ 3 replies \ @k00b OP 17 May
A friend of mine grew up on the big island, and explained how things like furniture is twice as expensive so many homes are sold furnished.
Maybe when we get autonomous ships and planes, I can have my Shenzhen-like Hawaiian island.
I didn't know that. It makes me think of @ov1_kenobi who had a community farm there.
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33 sats \ 2 replies \ @Undisciplined 17 May
Also worth noting is that politically, they might be even more anti development than the Californians you’re used to.
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39 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 17 May
If I'm buying an island, I'm also buying the government.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 18 May
They are scored via comparing - median price/median household income.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 18 May
Thanks to the neoliberal FIRE economy.
'Free market' deregulation for the purveyors of fiat debt created out of nothing and no longer required to be purposed toward productive investments.
Beware of politicians and lobbyists touting 'free market' reforms when they are applied to the last great state imposed monopoly - Fiat Money.
They did it in the 1980s and now we can see the result- but most people have no idea how this massive rentseeking scam was orchestrated under the 'neoliberal' free markets' ideological banner.
This is a major factor in the decline of western civilisation and is brought to you by the parasitic Jewish bankers who own your government.
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