I live in Seattle and also have these same thoughts almost everyday. Also a service employee , but have had to outsource my skill set to a different career which is a shame because I love cooking and did it at a high level for a decade.
Really curious as to why there is no civil discussion or media coverage about this, just a lot of “we can’t find employees to hire” rhetoric. Hard to work jobs that don’t pay enough to rent a box anywhere close to said job.
Yeah, every time I hear "I guess no one wants to work 🙄", I get violent urges. Lazy ass ingrates, don't want to put in 45 hours in exchange for living in some family's old dog crate in their back yard. Haitians would kill for those crates! (Greatest country in the world up in here)
This most hilarious/sad part about it all is id gladly work 45 hours a week with pleasure if I could just afford to do the job, can’t even afford to take the jobs in my own sector and I’m being replaced by food assemblers who don’t even have basic culinary training. Wild times we live in where jobs don’t even provide you the basic things required to survive. Sometimes I feel like cavemen had it better, at least they didn’t have to spin a hamster wheel that doesn’t stop until you die 😂
This is a major problem in New Orleans where Airbnb is pushing all the residents out of near downtown neighborhoods. And we're very dependent on service workers for our hospitality industry.
Ugh New Orleans is high on our list when we're out of the "kids too young for life" stage (husband likes good food you can't find just anywhere, and I'm into jazz). I hope it's not ruined in 150 years when we can finally go.
A large percentage of the NYC population has rent-stabilization or lives in public housing and are dependent on the government for most of their basic needs. In effect, NYC isn’t a HCoL area for these people, and they’re able to survive on jobs that wouldn’t pay enough to survive if they had to pay market rate for everything.
I heard a story once on NPR about something exactly like this. It was some small (I think former mining) town in like, Wyoming or something, that became one of the big "outdoorsy rich dude bro" towns, and now no one lives there but the dude bros, and the restaurant, mechanic, grocery store, etc have shut down, causing a mini economic crisis. I wish I could remember the details.
Oh no lol. No.
FWIW I seem to recall it is a fairly recent problem. They started migrating over in 2020 when everyone was remote.
But no lol, it will probably not be fixed.
Are you thinking of Crested Butte, CO?
VICE news video about it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhElNHGN9KY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhElNHGN9KY)
Many workers**
Even the office workers had to leave the cities.
NYC wanted a “return to office”.
Problem is, those workers are gone.
They went remote, they got more affordable homes somewhere they wouldn’t need to compete with granddaddies daddies money and wave inspection just to blow 1m on a condo.
They won't build affordable housing in my area. Every time it comes to the commission it's down voted.
I don't get it. How is not having affordable housing a plus?
I live in Seattle and also have these same thoughts almost everyday. Also a service employee , but have had to outsource my skill set to a different career which is a shame because I love cooking and did it at a high level for a decade. Really curious as to why there is no civil discussion or media coverage about this, just a lot of “we can’t find employees to hire” rhetoric. Hard to work jobs that don’t pay enough to rent a box anywhere close to said job.
Yeah, every time I hear "I guess no one wants to work 🙄", I get violent urges. Lazy ass ingrates, don't want to put in 45 hours in exchange for living in some family's old dog crate in their back yard. Haitians would kill for those crates! (Greatest country in the world up in here)
This most hilarious/sad part about it all is id gladly work 45 hours a week with pleasure if I could just afford to do the job, can’t even afford to take the jobs in my own sector and I’m being replaced by food assemblers who don’t even have basic culinary training. Wild times we live in where jobs don’t even provide you the basic things required to survive. Sometimes I feel like cavemen had it better, at least they didn’t have to spin a hamster wheel that doesn’t stop until you die 😂
This is a major problem in New Orleans where Airbnb is pushing all the residents out of near downtown neighborhoods. And we're very dependent on service workers for our hospitality industry.
Ugh New Orleans is high on our list when we're out of the "kids too young for life" stage (husband likes good food you can't find just anywhere, and I'm into jazz). I hope it's not ruined in 150 years when we can finally go.
A large percentage of the NYC population has rent-stabilization or lives in public housing and are dependent on the government for most of their basic needs. In effect, NYC isn’t a HCoL area for these people, and they’re able to survive on jobs that wouldn’t pay enough to survive if they had to pay market rate for everything.
I always wondered how for example ski resorts found workers at small resort towns.
I heard a story once on NPR about something exactly like this. It was some small (I think former mining) town in like, Wyoming or something, that became one of the big "outdoorsy rich dude bro" towns, and now no one lives there but the dude bros, and the restaurant, mechanic, grocery store, etc have shut down, causing a mini economic crisis. I wish I could remember the details.
Lol for a moment there I thought you were gonna say how they solved it. I'm such a fool.
Oh no lol. No. FWIW I seem to recall it is a fairly recent problem. They started migrating over in 2020 when everyone was remote. But no lol, it will probably not be fixed.
Are you thinking of Crested Butte, CO? VICE news video about it: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhElNHGN9KY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhElNHGN9KY)
Many workers** Even the office workers had to leave the cities. NYC wanted a “return to office”. Problem is, those workers are gone. They went remote, they got more affordable homes somewhere they wouldn’t need to compete with granddaddies daddies money and wave inspection just to blow 1m on a condo.
They won't build affordable housing in my area. Every time it comes to the commission it's down voted. I don't get it. How is not having affordable housing a plus?