Comment by dumbledoren
11 days ago
> This seems to be an assumption you made, but the poster did not imply or state
He doesn't need to. The dynamics of such emigration are always like that.
> I'm not looking for lower CoL places, I'm looking for comparable QoL places
That still causes gentrification. You will go to increase the housing demand in the place you go to and that will cause all of you to gentrify, including you. That even happens to those who go to lower CoL places - in just a few years, prices skyrocket and the richer emigrants themselves are stupefied - today CoL in major European cities that became popular locations for such emigration are catching up to the places where these people escaped from.
I was a big proponent of such international white-collar mobility before. The statistics and real-life experiences changed that.
I get where you're coming from, I really do, but I also think that perspective effectively means that you should never migrate -- ever. To anywhere, at all. I take the stance that gentrification is inevitable, unfortunately, but it can be guided and managed (and I say this as someone who's been gentrified out of an area I'd really love to live in for the rest of my life). Just like you can't control the weather, you also can't control migration patterns but you can manage them.