My mom was a server for years. She lived in the ghetto and worked in the suburbs to feed me and my brother. The only place she could afford was in one of the most dangerous places in our city, and that was when her and my dad were together and had a two income household. This was in the 80s.PoplarGrove wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 11:07 amI don't think they deserve to live in a high cost area. But if people who live in high cost of living areas want these services then they need to be prepared to make sure they have places for those providing the services to live. Maybe it's different in the States but in my city the cheapest house a person can purchase at the moment is 200'000 and rent for a one bedroom apartment starts at $1000. A person making minumum wage isn't going to be able to afford either oprion which is why there is affordable housing run by the government. I'm not saying a person making 20'000 a year deserves to live in a $500'000.00 home but even the cheapest open market home is beyond their reach. The options society has are to provide affordable housing or deal with the fact that we may have a labour shortage in the service industry.DDPickles86 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 02, 2018 6:27 amWhy do you think people who work these jobs deserve or entitled to live in a high cost area? I'm really curious.PoplarGrove wrote: ↑Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:42 am
You're right...no one is entitled to anything. No one is also entitled to have grocery stores, convenience stores, restaurants or coffee shops near their homes or work. If places with high costs of living want service in areas that don't offer a high wage they need to be prepared to either not have those services or make sure the people providing them can afford to do so.
I do think it's pretty shitty to expect someone to commute 1-2 hours in order to serve someone coffee. Which is what it sounds like many people seem to feel should happen.
My mom knew that she wouldn't be able to take care of us if she continued being a server so she went to school and became a lawyer in another state that she knew she could afford to live in. We moved to a rural town where our house was the only house with indoor plumbing on our street. She would drive an hour and a half everyday, even being a lawyer to take care of us. She didnt make a lot of money at first because she was working for legal aid. But she still somehow did it. This was in the late 90s. We had food, we had clothes, we had a roof over our heads. She didnt complain. She didnt ask someone to build a three bedroom apartment for only $750 a month. She knew where she could afford to live and made adjustments and sacrifices. Millions of Americans do it every single day.
I dont want to hear that crap about shortage in the service industry. That's absolute shit. If one person will not do it the next person will. It's called work ethic and living in your means. It's a foreign concept to many people.