The Urban Current
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Tuesday 26 May 2026 13:59:03 GMT
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Jamie Kelly :
I’m gonna be Portland poor. They have awesome studios and one bedrooms at income restricted pricing. Good enough for me. I wanna be close to the Goonies and Twin Peaks 😋
2026-07-09 22:49:56
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Will 🍉 :
I think rent should be capped at 30% of the median income of an area. People shouldn’t be able to treat housing as a business.
2026-05-27 19:50:06
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Olivia :
I'm a jersey suburb to Philly transplant - I chose Philly poor everytime
2026-07-09 22:02:15
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mh3lan3y :
This is exactly why I moved lol. Being broke AND hating where you live feels worse.
2026-05-27 16:45:21
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dfajosf :
NYC poor is fabulous. I have a library card, which gives you a culture pass - free museums. Then get a slice on the cheap. $3 subway fare. $35 max per week for subway. It's awesome.
2026-05-28 14:46:22
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Vit_C :
he DOES have a point. I need to see things from that perspective more.
2026-07-09 21:53:01
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Life of Dee | Vietnam 🇻🇳 :
I left America lol
2026-05-27 11:03:32
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Johnny B :
The answer to this dillema is Chicago. Chi is cheap enough not to break you and you get everything any top 10 city in the world has to offer. But the winters are brutal..
2026-05-27 06:29:04
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crusadxr :
Can’t be doing that in no DFW period!!
2026-07-08 18:55:22
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I Have Friends Everywhere :
The big thing keeping everyone poor is the car. It’s not JUST that cars are expensive to buy, insure, fuel, and maintain. But building everything for the car makes everything more expensive. More taxes for roads. Businesses have to build and maintain massive parking lots, and they pass those costs to you. Same thing with your rents, which factor in your parking.
2026-05-28 01:51:37
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GoldieLox :
Middle of nowhere is starting to get expensive
2026-05-28 12:41:24
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MigraineMilk :
Small towns are no longer affordable either. Affordability is not an "urban" issue. Why can't people focus on anything outside of their periphery
2026-05-27 16:55:38
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jubie :) :
atlanta is pretty good even with rising prices, all things considered
2026-05-26 22:18:20
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cinnamon_toast_c.nt :
I live in Chicago and it’s heartbreaking to see us losing our affordability every year. It’s out of control
2026-05-27 19:00:27
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Xander :
As someone who moved from Ohio to California, tea
2026-06-30 17:31:12
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kevin :
As someone from a “walkable” city that’s currently being gentrified, yes.
2026-05-27 05:30:34
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lola :
I rent a 1.3k shoebox room but at least I don't have to have a vehicle 🤔
2026-07-08 16:11:26
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Chompers :
"Pick your poor" just sounds like a capitalistic rhetoric that reinforces your original statement. The illusion of choice to be in different areas (and still be poor) is justified in the way that people can supposedly "choose" to be in areas that have higher cultural indexes, yet it doesn't account for moving costs, general bases of living, nor failure outcomes. In the example of L.A. it is not really walkable (it's barely drivable), it has egregious housing costs, and extremely mistreats "social failures" like homelessness. We shouldn't have to pick between affordability and culture, we SHOULD have both.
2026-05-26 14:25:10
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mads :
Rent should be $700 max for luxury apartments with everything included and renovated / brand new idk 🤷🏻♀️
2026-06-27 05:12:16
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Angel :
There’s plenty to do in Ohio
2026-05-28 00:27:20
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1_800_cvnty :
i just want to live in a walkable city, i hate driving sometimes. why are us cities so inaccessible 😭
2026-06-03 14:11:15
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jsudjdidj :
Sidenote.. LA is not walkable
2026-05-30 20:51:39
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myownrainbow :
Baltimore and Detroit feel like the only “big cities” left that are actually affordable. Bought my 4/3.5 house for 250k. I love Baltimore 🥰
2026-05-27 21:29:49
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big dog :
The biggest factor you left out of this video is weather. Yes Syracuse is an affordable city, but the weather is mostly awful. It’s difficult to walk around and experience vibrancy in a city if everyone’s inside all the time because it’s miserable outside.
2026-05-29 16:08:04
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budgetcraftdiymom :
There's more assistance in cities, better food banks ect
2026-06-30 01:11:40
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