[Obie Wan]

"I think there's a lot of evidence that limited housing availability and affordability is a strong factor for why young college grads don't choose to remain here," Gittell told the Daily.'

Limited housing my ass, beyond "good ole boy" nepotism jobs in government, medical and education, there's less and less opportunities for people to make a decent living equal to the tax and housing cost structure that's in place in the northeast states to hang around !!!

[I still care]

I left Long Island because of 'limited housing availability and affordability"

In English, a house that has $7000 yearly taxes (a nice average figure on LI) is just not worth it compared to a house in the South with taxes of maybe $1500.

They can put in all the clubs and marketing they want, but in order to give out their ridiculous entitlements and pay their unions the NE states have developed monster property taxes and people just can't pay them.

The only problem is, the uneducated that move here "for the taxes' are flabbergasted when they don't get their perks, and start voting social stuff as soon as they get here. It's amazing to me that people never seem to see the relationship between taxes and services, and don't understand how inefficient and wasteful the government is with our money.

[sine_nomine]

Would gay marriage chase a few normal families out? I think so.

[maryz]

Limited housing my ass,

In addition to the hack nepotism (which is admittedly pervasive), there really is limited housing. A lot of communities oppose any development, and it seems to me there's some kind of environmental ("preservation") statute on the books by which, in effect, the state actually pays them to keep development out.

[bert]

...... limited housing availability ......

Cable TV thrives on fixing up houses. Apparently the young folks would rather buy a new house in Cary than rebuild a 120 year house in New Hampshirew/Boston.