Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Did you mean a 'tectonic shift'? On May 19, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Richard Man wrote: > As someone who grew up in the government projects in Hong Kong, then "made > it" and bought a house in Palo Alto, but now hit with the financial > fallout, plus having one kid in college and one kid entering college in a > year or so, I can fully understand Philip and Chris' plight. Did I work my > arse off to get to where I was? Yes. Do I see the same problems that they > allude to? Yes. > > What I see is a system increasingly deck against the Little Guys, but my > rant is only suitable for the Forum. Yes, the opportunities are still out > there - for my children's sake, I sure hope that it is true. But one should > not think that the situation is the same as even 5 years ago. Times have > changed. A nothing 3 bedroom house in Vancouver can fetch over 1.3 million > dollars, mostly because of all the rich money from China. How would you > like to be growing up in Vancouver and then knowing that there is no way > you can stay there? Same thing is happening in the Silicon Valley (and have > been happening since I moved here ~20 years ago). We are seeing a Teutonic > shift, just that it's not affecting people in "other countries," but right > here in USA, and not limited to a particular race or geographic regions. > > > -- > // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information