Come lo diciamo alle generazioni più giovani?

It is a sad truth, but we must accept that:

– we can’t push the mountains away to create more flatland.
– we have voted YES to preventing the agricultural coutryside from being eaten away by new building plots (which is a good thing)

So in short, the age of « affordable » house-buying is pretty much over.

Wtf is that last statement from the ubs guy? If you look only at people who can afford a home it looks less dramatic? Am I understanding something wrong?

Here is one idea: establish a progressive health insurance scheme, that is proportional to net worth and salaries.

different view point and a controversial opinion, but the idea/dream/goal that everyone has to start a family, pop out a few kids and move into a single family home is outdated and has always had a deadline looming, it’s only becoming more visible now. this idea does not scale, period.

it is also increasingly unfair, as the more private ownership you have, the more inefficient allocation to living space you get, esp in a small country with even smaller usable residential area – grandma alone in her 3 story house, lucky artist kid with no income inheriting that house a few years later thanks to the genetic lottery, etc.

i rather have large, tall (yes, revise those zoning laws) buildings owned by pensions funds and other institutional investors and keep a renters market because it makes the allocation more efficient and everyone profits from the appreciating assets instead of just a few and combats things like NIMBYism

Don’t buy houses here. If you want a house, move out. Vote for legislation that hits the most egregious space-wasting owners (higher property tax, tax on low density housing), so that owning becomes less lucrative. Pay for construction with public money and make these apartments available for low rent as an alternative to owning.

Or keep things the way they are, but shut up about it. If you don’t want change don’t fucking complain, OK?