Moving is not as easy as you make out to be. People choose to live in a place for other reason than just monetary: their family might be in SF, they might have been born there etc. You can't just turn your face and say, "Hey this is how the market works. Deal with it". Because when the number of people disgruntled with this system reaches a certain point, bad things will happen.
"People choose to live in a place for other reason than just monetary: their family might be in SF, they might have been born there etc. "
Their are consequences to this choice. The consequence in this case is "it is hard to find a job that pays well enoguh to live there".
"You can't just turn your face and say, "Hey this is how the market works. Deal with it"."
I agree this is true. However, literally not a single person in this thread has given a solution to this problem that works over the long term.
"Because when the number of people disgruntled with this system reaches a certain point, bad things will happen."
Yes, revolutions happen. This does not generate a long term stable situation where everyone can live where they want either :)
(in fact, revolutions tend to redistribute land, and often people who were living in places the longest get kicked out!)
"Bad things" just kind of proves the point. If someone had come up with a viable solution, these bad things would never happen. But they happen in places all the time. They effectively reset the clock on some problem, though they often have some nasty side-effects.
