r/Eugene • u/Demifiend101 • Dec 18 '22

I'm really starting to think moving here was a massive mistake. Moving

It was this, Huston Texas or north Carolina. I was just so sick and tired of living in a poverty state (WV) and wanted to make way more money.

Now I'm making 3600 a month, but the housing market is so competitive and high market I might as well be making 1200 back in the mountain state.

It's a complete god damn nightmare, currently staying in a motel that's costing me 2000$ a month just because I can't get in anywhere no matter how hard I try or applications I fill.

Applications which all have 50-80$ background checks. I've spent will over 1000$ in less than a month filling out those things.

Huston has a population of over 2.7 MILLION, and you can get a place there for just 600 a month still.

Where did it all go wrong here?

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u/Br0dy Dec 18 '22

Look, the amount of you who are saying, “BUT DID YOU RESEARCH FIRST?.” 12 other people said that, it’s not the most helpful. The rental and housing market here is not sustainable for a massive amount of people who are looming. It’s a small town and should be able to handle someone moving here who makes an adequate living.

What’s the answer? I honestly don’t know aside from stricter laws on rentals and cost of rent.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Limiting rent tends to favor existing renters, but doesn't tend help people looking for housing. It's not a bad stop gap short term aide but there needs to be a long term plan to follow it up.

Unfortunately the only reasonable long term plan is to build a lot more housing, which I just don't see happening here. No one wants the city to sprawl, and no one wants to tear down all the single family houses and build highrise apartments.

The most likely situation is that prices will continue to climb and we'll become a small city that only upper middle class and wealthy people can live in. Perhaps we'll keep a service sector living in cottage grove and junction city.

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u/[deleted] Dec 18 '22

Eventually people will stop moving here, some will move away, and prices will stabilize.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '22

Yeah just like prices stabilized in San Fransisco and Seattle. The only problem is they stabilize at a level only the wealthy can afford.

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u/pirawalla22 Dec 19 '22

I am sorry to inform you that people are not going to stop moving here

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '22

Probably not. But many will go back to their former place if they can't afford housing.

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u/TormentedTopiary Dec 18 '22

Some people are ego fragile and have led pretty pampered lives. Sadly, for them shitting on other people for not having it as easy as they've had it and ascribing it to poor planning and other personal failings on someone else's part is how they shore up their self-respect.

These are the guys who go ape on how homelessness is ruining their beautiful life and then hop in their Tesla to go protest someone building an apartment building.

What Marx called the petit bourgeois.