On: Baby boomers are making it harder for millennials ...

[rljy]

In eastern europe, we have Paneláky <https://www.google.cz/search?q=sidli%C5%A1t%C4%9B&source=lnm... and the housing prices are low in the panel houses and much higher everywhere else (though no-where nere US levels). You can even buy an apartment in a panel house an hour and a halfs drive outside of prague for $5000USD https://www.sreality.cz/hledani/prodej/byty/ustecky-kraj,lib...

[mattmanser → rljy]

In Europe and the US a lot of these were built too.

A lot of them are now being torn down.

I'm not an authority on why, but I believe they tended to be crime and drug hot spots. I have also read of various health problems being associated with them (both physical + mental).

[zaccus → mattmanser]

Buildings like that in the US tend to be housing projects, where people are less likely to have a sense of ownership. Not exactly apples to apples.

[rljy → zaccus]

There was also a technical issue, caused by the fact that in the US, many of the buildings had windows which could not be opened. People didn't like that.

[literallycancer → rljy]

I suspect that people aren't talking about 1.5 hour one way commute when they say that rents are too high.

[expertentipp → rljy]

> panel house an hour and a halfs drive outside of prague for $5000USD https://www.sreality.cz/hledani/prodej/byty/ustecky-kraj,lib....

From the photos alone I can smell the odor of alcohol and feel the depression and suicide looming in the air.

[rljy → expertentipp]

Oh don't be silly. US is 48th on list of countries by suicide rate. Czech Republic is 83rd.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r...

[expertentipp → rljy]

Czechia is an exception in this part of Europe, Poles/Lithuanians are more likely to have this "problem".