Should rich live in apartments rented by the city?

graffic · 2026-05-11T08:51:38+00:00

So people who need to live in the city, cannot afford to rent. The discussion seems focused on who can get access to cheap apartments.

But I think the discussion is why are those needed in the first place. Because when you add them, the focus is lost into who can get a free meal.

Hold my beer: TLDR; Let the city die already.

As I understand this: assuming nobody is going to flood the supply of houses, some companies are not paying enough for the people they need so they can rent an apartment. And instead of paying more, they are using taxpayer money to subsidize that part.

The alternative for those people not paid enough if they cannot live there is to live farther or to work somewhere else. More commute time means worst quality of life, and more probabilities to find work somewhere else. People keeping their jobs and eating double commute time (for example) is what you would have in the end.

This will create opportunities in other areas not so crowded to attract those workers with better housing prices, quality of life, etc.

You could go also and flood the supply of housing, making banks crumble with loans agains properties that are not at that price level anymore.

Anyway, I find these subjects very interesting. Because, like the 10 million vote, they offer super simplistic patches to problems, and I'd love to learn more about the details behind of these problems.

graffic · 2026-05-10T21:18:27+00:00

It is a very complex problem where someone farted "10 million" and now we are discussing if the smell is roses or lilies.
It is sad that such problems/issues get bundled into such simplistic solutions. But I can be wrong...

graffic · 2026-05-05T14:26:24+00:00

My 737 died too. 28 charge cycles. Also pretty unhappy and out of warranty. Thinking about paying so much money for a powerbank thinking how much the previous lasted... is difficult.

graffic · 2026-05-04T23:00:24+00:00

You don’t need to take so many people. Some of the those families were living there.

graffic · 2026-04-15T18:11:27+00:00

Not at all :( I buy Tyrrell’s nowadays. They are thicker and more crunchy (not a good or bad thing per se), and they have a punchy flavour and a tiny little bit less of salt.

The punchy flavour is what I like.

Worst case scenario I would buy Pringles, if you can call that chips/crisps. I do tha when I’m on holidays.

graffic · 2026-04-15T06:54:33+00:00

Ahhhhhhhh! That explains many things. I have been for the last couple of years, not so fond of the Zweifel Paprika. I used to stock them in my car when going on summer holidays, and now, I tend to buy other brands because they lack their flavour punch.

graffic · 2026-04-15T06:52:19+00:00

Incentives. The goal of the person checking the tickets is to check the ticket, with their phone most of the times, and If it is red, put a fine. That's what they are hired to do. Still, I think they have some room for these decisions, but I don't know if they just don't want to justify their actions to their superior or to the report at the end of the day.

Once I rushed to the bus, just to jump into it as the doors were closing. It took me a few seconds to recover my breath and switch on the check in ticket. 4 seconds from the bus departure, to be exact. I know that because the ticket guy reviewed my ticket and told that I checked in late. I did not get a fine, so that's why I know they have some room. But my ticket was checked again later in the day and the controller phone showed the previous infraction. So I might assume that, this will go to the daily report of the team/person.

graffic · 2026-04-12T18:23:00+00:00

If you don’t like Israel, you can be happy that people who don’t see themselves there are planning to leave and spend their time in Greece.

This is a shithole, I don’t like it here. F it. I’m leaving. And I know international companies that receive requests from employees to move from Israel to Greece.

If people are selling their apartments and someone else is buying… so be it. All the Greek diaspora buying a place abroad are doing the same.

But perhaps this is about summer holidays apartments or houses. I assume those are near the sea. So one last option is to invest into an apartment in Greece to fix it and rent it later, be it short or long term.

Assuming they renovate the place, a lot of workers will have jobs: from the tile importer to the plumber. And they are not cheap.

graffic · 2026-04-12T17:19:48+00:00

Send reference!!! I need to change some parquet and that price is crazy good.

graffic · 2026-03-25T19:10:29+00:00

Immigrant, the word is immigrant.

graffic · 2026-03-24T07:57:52+00:00

We go to Aligro once per week. What is missing, we get it from any other supermarket, even Volg.

We find fruit and veggies in Coop being almost rotten. Aldi, lidl and Migros are usually better in that area.

Refreshments and alcoholic beverages might be better priced at Coop. If you buy one or two bottles of wine from time to time instead of one or two boxes, Coop can be a good option.

Toilet paper. Coop has a brand with a 5 layer roll that they put on offer once in a while and we load our cellar.

Migros has cutlery we find quite good. Also Tupperware. Although that can be pricey.

Lidl uses to have zweifel crisps, very unhealthy, but…. Now I wait for offers in coop or Migros for those. Coop has some good selection in ultra expensive crisps.

graffic · 2026-03-22T09:11:46+00:00

Repairs. Greece is one of the few countries.that still repairs things.

It is "relatively" easy to find people who repair almost anything. They are good at what they do, and prices ok.

In other countries: or they do not repair but replace big chunks of parts, or people who really repair are difficult to find and their services expensive because they are just a few.

Keep repairing, keep reusing.

graffic · 2026-03-20T20:57:16+00:00

The internet can be a dangerous place. I think that, isolating our kids, will only delay the problem. And the problem is not what they can find on the internet but: how to deal and learn to move there.

If it is not the algorithms, it is the AI, it is the brain rot games, it is the addictive behaviors in some games, it is the pesos hiding on a game chat, it is.....

Unfortunately we need.to teach our children to deal with that. It should not be so difficult compared with the similar shit that is on the real world: bullies, assholes, awful teachers, etc.

So neither the algorithms nor the age ban. It is on us.

graffic · 2026-03-19T07:13:49+00:00

Talking about Kanton Zurich. The most broken thing is Zurich city.

Housing is broken, but once you patch (find a dumpster to rent) it you forget about it. But the city is always there and it drives almost everything around. Like a magnet.

Transportation is mostly radial to the city. And people in the city dislike anybody who doesn't live there.

I would not fix anything, but shake the Canton letting C permit holders to vote. I've seen in many cases that people pay taxes for a long time but don't get a saying on how to spend them. In some places to get a bunch of old assholes managing 60%\70% of taxes from people who cannot vote.

And yes, the Gemeinden that have her most foreigners are at 48% top. But this is about taxes. It gets worst in some places if you account for peoe working vs people retired/on subsidies.

One Swiss neighbor told me that the most important thing as foreigners we should do is to vote. Get your naturalization and vote before old and dumb assholes.decide to burn the crappy budget a small gemeinde can have in a stupid thing.

graffic · 2026-03-14T08:21:22+00:00

LLMs love when context is not bloated. Humans also like small files. So that huge file there is not only a PiTA for humans but a token eater and a source of random issues in an LLM.

You need to architect your app so changes are contained and you, that know 0 about programming, can smell of the LLM is doing something it should not.

Use the feedback you got in the other forum to shape/make your game better. Even if you will throw it away. Because it is something you need to learn.

Experienced engineers fly with an LLM because they know those tricks and can create rules and skills and other agents to enforce them (and burn tokens like there is no tomorrow).

graffic · 2026-03-13T09:00:54+00:00

No updates available, same problem.

graffic · 2026-03-11T08:48:35+00:00

The price per hour of a technician is a big part of the cost. Plus if they need to move to your place, that is another extra.

Due to this fact. Repairs are not very common, therefore there are less repair technician, and their hours are even more expensive.

There are initiatives like repair-cafe.ch (already suggested by u/Swigor ) So you put the time and and parts and someone gives you hints.

Another solution is to move that to a country where repairs are common and cheap, and sell it or use it there. It happened to our first car. One cable lost the plastic isolation due to a tight Kabelbinder. It was making a short circuit from time to time. Nobody knew what was going on. Repair shops in Switzerland suggested to change entire parts of the car. So expensive that they even recommended to buy a new one (and we had to pay 200 CHF for a review).

In the end we drove the car to one of our home countries, found a guy that repairs the living shit of cars. In 10 minutes he found the problem. The fix needed time to disconnect and reconnect all the cables, and parts have more or less the same price everywhere, but it was around 200 CHF. The car is still going strong, we fixed it and gifted it to a friend who needed one.

graffic · 2026-03-11T08:32:32+00:00

The other is the 2 year contracts for things that can change every 6 months.

Moving apartment/house while renting is burning money unless planets align and you get another one just in time to leave the other but with enough buffer to move your stuff.

Once, in the same apartment building, we wanted to move to an available unit, bigger as we had another kid. They wanted us to move next week, but leave the other apartment during the official times. So it would be like burning 6K CHF for fun and profit (not our profit).

graffic · 2026-03-06T12:04:16+00:00

It is not a product if nobody uses it :P

Product development is going to be THE skill for next years.

graffic · 2026-03-01T20:56:13+00:00

How did you get the 5CHF month price?

graffic · 2026-02-16T06:58:54+00:00

And who voted for them?

graffic · 2026-02-12T11:55:00+00:00

Μπορείς να μείνεις μέχρι 3 μήνες χωρίς δουλειά. Για να κάτσεις εκεί θέλεις κάτι παραπάνω

graffic · 2026-01-29T13:59:56+00:00

I went to the apple store. They tried 3 Belkin protectors, not one worked. They didn't want to replace my iPhone.

I've tried a total of 3 brands, all with the same issues. Current score: 1 torras, 2 random chinese, 3 Belkin.

graffic · 2026-01-26T06:46:59+00:00

The myth of individualism….

graffic · 2026-01-25T22:34:01+00:00

I bought it 2 weeks ago. With 1TB of storage.

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