Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]As someone who grew up in the government projects in Hong Kong, then "made it" and bought a house in Palo Alto, but now hit with the financial fallout, plus having one kid in college and one kid entering college in a year or so, I can fully understand Philip and Chris' plight. Did I work my arse off to get to where I was? Yes. Do I see the same problems that they allude to? Yes. What I see is a system increasingly deck against the Little Guys, but my rant is only suitable for the Forum. Yes, the opportunities are still out there - for my children's sake, I sure hope that it is true. But one should not think that the situation is the same as even 5 years ago. Times have changed. A nothing 3 bedroom house in Vancouver can fetch over 1.3 million dollars, mostly because of all the rich money from China. How would you like to be growing up in Vancouver and then knowing that there is no way you can stay there? Same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley (and have been happening since I moved here ~20 years ago). We are seeing a Teutonic shift, just that it's not affecting people in "other countries," but right here in USA, and not limited to a particular race or geographic regions. -- // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>