$500k houses? How we killed the American Dream TWICE...
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- We've lived the same way since World War II. It doesn't work anymore. Did you know the country used to have a different American Dream and we broke that one, too? Lessons from the Homestead Act, the Dust Bowl, and what it can teach us about the future of suburbanization.
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Old Folks: "I don't want any new development."
The same Old Folks: "When are you going to give me grandkids?"
Lol
Boomers invested all their wealth into a single asset (homes), so instead of weathering the market or diversifying, they petitioned the state to restrict supply (anti-development). At the same time, all the services they wanted were too expensive, so they petitioned the state again to depress wages by expanding the labor supply (mass immigration). Now their children and grandchildren are competing in a flooded labor market to afford homes they'll never be able to buy, and all those aging Boomers will completely bankrupt the Social Security system. At the very least they can die alone in a shoddy retirement home surrounded by all the baubles and cheap foreign labor their materialist lifestyle could want.
@@Schlabbeflicker well explained
@@Schlabbeflicker You must either work in the government or academia. No one else thinks that way.
@@SteviePaints no. I doubt that's true, you cannot speak for "everyone else". Maybe you refuse to see it because you are part of that group.
My grandpa bought a house in the suburbs, new construction in 1954 for $11,000. Imagine buying a brand new house at 27 with a normal job and without a high school diploma.
You could get 4 corvettes for the same price at the time.
@@jamestucker8088 ... I'm assuming you mean a type of car there, small warships seem like they'd be more expensive than that :p
Bruh.... they made 7-13 cents an hour. Top dollar at the ol’mans lumber mill was $7 a day.
James Tucker 11k - 4 corvettes? Damn inflation really is a thing.
@@boundarysentinel4181 The minimum wage in 1954 was 75 cents an hour. Either you are lying or too stupid to use Google.
I noticed something in the last clip with all the people complaining about developing their areas. They are from a generation that could afford a house working a single job. Not the later Generation that has to work 2 or more just to rent a single bedroom apartment.
I thought the same thing. Same generation and thought process.
And you're from a generation that has the opportunity to literally work from anywhere, if you can just get over living in "the country."
You mean a single bedroom (or couch, even balcony) in someone else’s cramped apartment?
@@joez.2794 you can’t get fast enough internet “in the country” to work from home. Cell phone signals are important for that too (working from home). So if there’s no cell service and crappy to no internet, those people can’t work from home.
@@cynicalcindy1434 It's 2022, not 2002, kiddo Most rural areas have plenty of high-speed Internet options and decent cell service. What they usually don't have, however, is avocado toast. You'll have to learn to make that yourself.
NIMBY: "NO MORE HOUSES!"
Homeless: 👍
NIMBY: "Oh, oh no! OH NO!"
I don't got it
Accurate
@@snoopyloopy We're about to get tens of millions of new homeless too. And while there's always going to be a base level of homeless, druggies, mentally ill, just dysfunctional people, these new millions are going to be normal people who got fucked over by capitalism (look at how much richer the oligarchs have become over the last few months) and they're going to be competent, and angry.
@@alexcarter8807 Are they gonna be angry that they were rolled over by their system?(capitalism) or because they knew what was coming and did nothing to stop it while it happened in slow motion in plain view?
I felt like just as the video was going to touch on one of the most.. touchiest issues, it's over.
Y'know, if you'd build more five-over-ones (AKA podium buildings) in the suburbs, you could sell apartments in those for affordable prices, increase population density and reduce travel times because everything is closer together. Put some bakeries, grocery stores and restaurants in the ground floor, give them a nice, broad sidewalk with trees, dedicated bike lanes and a park nearby and you have a pretty nice neighbourhood.
Careful now, the Americans might panic if you suggest a European city
@@agonzgonzalez7748 🤫
It’s 2024 and they’ve built unlimited 5 over 1s in the suburbs. Now the whole country is a 5 over 1 and rent still has the audacity to be $2000 for a studio in a suburb 40 minutes from the city. This is in every city in America except NY, LA, SF, BOSTON and SEATTLE which are obviously twice the price for a studio in the suburbs 🥲
this video has the same vibe as the ones teachers would show in grade school when they didnt feel like teaching and for that i love it
"It was the couldn't afford part, the demand was still real"
I wish people understood this. I wish people stopped treating housing as a way to make money off of people, and actually as a basic human need.
But that would be Socialism! You know why the Russians didn't all kill each other off in a bloody internal war when the USSR fell? Because nobody owned their housing - it was gov't assigned as a human need. So no one was thrown out of their houses into the snow, and if they were like the USA where everyone would just get thrown out, there's be massacres in the street - it would literally be eat the rich time.
That's an oversimplification.
It is an oversimplification however this person is making a important statement.
@@camrenmugabe3062 yep greed is ruining everything in this world
Yes.
I live in the suburbs but work in a rural area. It's great, I am going the opposite way of all the traffic both to and from work.
I live on the edge of the city and work in the same neighborhood I live in. It’s nice. Half the time I ride an electric scooter to work.
I also go against the traffic flow to and from work(most of the route anyways). Its great.
Well here in houston living in Katie going into the city there is traffic both ways where do you guys live
@@dark12ain I thought the West Houston suburb was called Katy. I live on the east side of Phoenix in the lower end of Arcadia.
@@danieldaniels7571 I10 is what I drive on
I paid under 200k for my house, now the area starts at 600k, i wouldn't be able to afford that
You also benefit from prop 13, which isn't mentioned at all in this video.
It is nearly impossible to afford your first home in an established career outside of college. Now that remote working is being seen as more viable, this will do wonders for the housing market and is going to put pressure back on companies to be more competitive in their salaries nationally. Give me gigabit internet and a place to get food and I’d be fine living just about anywhere - given I can still reach the other branches of my family which all live here in the KC area.
@@RyanValizan Companies will lower the salaries, but this is not going to solve the housing crisis. Working from home significantly reduces the productivity of employees. So employers will still demand employees coming to the office, but then like min. 50% of the time. In this way employees are still being forced to live close to the office which means the housing crisis will still be a thing in the future. The roads are quite calm now, but that's always the case when capacity is increased by widening the road or when white collar people works less in the office. Unfortunately, the law of induced demand will make sure those roads will be clogged again within like 3 years. The only way to tackle that issue is building (safe) bicycle infrastructure the Dutch way to at least have an opportunity to circumvent gridlock.
@@hendrikdependrik1891 Dutch safe cycling infrastructure with more missing middle housing and mixed use zoning. People don’t realize everywhere doesn’t have to be Manhattan when people talk about density
@@RyanValizan a gigabite,
I crie with my 5kbs :'(
I have this strange compulsion to learn about highway interactions, and this channel will forever be the best way to scratch that itch.
You would enjoy Death Stranding.
Play Cities Skylines
work 3 years to pay a house by yourself? damn that would be great
That's not how that works. You would still have all your other expenses for those three years. You can only ever use about 25% of your salary for housing costs. Everything else goes to taxes, food, transportation, and a bunch of other bills, with a little left over in savings if you are lucky.
@@mirzaahmed6589 Obviously the loan might've not been necessarily paid in 3 years back then but the point that Endjo was trying to make was that it would be nice if we didn't have to dedicate basically 40 years of our lives just trying to pay off the loan for our house.
Incredible video as always really reminiscent of the quality discovery and history channel content back in their golden ages for me. Thanks man!
This is how I wish people would make YT videos.
Honestly, you've probably heard it before, but curiosity stream is really good with this kind of stuff.
"Any escape might help smooth the unattractive truth, but the suburbs have no charms to sooth the restless dreams of youth..."
-Rush, Subdivisions...
I sit here, watching this in my 430 square foot apartment in Boston....
This guy does a better job than a lot of my college professors did
I looked up in Zillow one of the houses I grew up in. It's in Costa mesa, Orange County. My father sold it in 1966 for $14K. I see that it's now worth $1.6 million. It's worth 114 times what he sold it for 54 years ago.
Good God that is insane
That's 114 times, not 1143 times.
Beat me to it, was writing a similar story.
I love your videos Rob. You’re so underrated and deserve so many more views! Keep making these awesome videos! 👍🏼
Couldn’t agree more.
A young clawboss prior to becoming popular.
This made me remember those California City (Kern County) & California Pines (Modoc County) infomercials from the 90s.
Those were just big ponzi schemes.
You can still buy a house in California City pretty cheap. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to live there, though.
California City technically still exists and I wouldn't be surprised if the pandemic response pushes more people out there if they can work from home most days.
@@snoopyloopy Well california city is a booming city mostly due to the fact their is a lot of flat land to develop
As a home builder. People are scurrying to smaller towns. And business is booming. I’ve had to turn down 3 jobs and have work for the next 2 years at least.
it will all burst just like 2008 the population is on credit
The country is dying. You're only seeing the top income brackets doing anything.
Thank you for telling the truth about home ownership and the real history. Some people still think a certain group of people had the “same” opportunities, but where just lazy. It’s never as simple as that. Even tho he had no malice and was genuinely ignorant. He still refused to listen to the facts. Videos like this slowly teaches the truth.
That is the clearest prediction of the next 10 years that I have ever seen. wow.
Man what a great video, I don't even live in the US but this helps me understand a lot of things. Thanks and please keep them coming ❤️❤️❤️
This is easily your best video yet Rob! Great production and flow. The writing felt compact and informational, but still very understandable and the editing was really good too. Honestly this is just about TV quality. Thanks a ton!!
Excellent documentary, Rob! Well researched and very informative!
This is the whole reason I became a contractor, just get into some sort of trade whatever one you enjoy... You will always find work because there is always construction going on, or things need fixing.whether it's out of town or in the middle of town... You can live pretty much wherever you want.. and pull in $30-70/hr
It's the reason I'm still holding on to my father contracting business after his passing. Family wonder why I just don't look for a different job that pay higher more frequently. The same family members that often question if their job will still be there tomorrow or have to jump from job to job because they are losing hours while I'm finding consistent work because my skill set is in short supply and high demand.
I have often discussed this with builder friends of mine and the really important thing to do is learn how to price a job properly and get stage payments on big or expensive work. Like cops and pilots and firefighters, builders have to retire early and may suffer job related injuries more readily than office workers. That is why their life insurance and injury cover are higher than most jobs. It is also very important to have a variety of income sources from various property management companies or owners and to set up a network of likeminded people in order to get work in the lean times and share out work to others in the busy times.
Doesn’t work if you don’t have any of those skills though.
this is an incredibly well written peice.
My god. I am Greek but this video helped me understand so much about USA.
Nearly complete lack of middle density development over the past 70 years has really screwed us over.
This was a really informative video! I really liked how you called out specific reasonings as to how we got here today. I look forward to your next video!
A big problem driving up rent prices in Vegas is the corporate property owners. When the market crashed, these corporations swooped into Vegas and bought all the properties they could for pennies on the dollar. Many of these properties sat vacant for years because these corporations didn't want them occupied. By taking these properties off the market, they were able to artificially decrease supply as demand rose from people moving here from California. This is why home prices and rents in Vegas have been going up steadily for a few years now. So, you have housing prices artificially high as these corporate owners slowly put these vacant homes on the market and you also have rents artificially high because you have a handful of corporations that own a huge percentage of the rental properties which allows them to set whatever price they want.
And yet people who clamor for higher-density housing plug their ears & scream "LALALA" when you tell them just who is developing these housing units. These corporations have consistently proven that they're only interested in luxury units, and will gleefully let them sit vacant for eons until someone can afford them. They point at the boomers and say it's their fault when developers are the ones artificially decreasing available housing. I'm fact, I'm convinced that the shift of blame on to the boomers is a smear campaign by these companies, like how they try to shift the responsibility of recycling on to the individual when they're creating more waste than every citizen combined. It's only a matter of time before companies like Blackrock buy up literally all the land available and create modern-day feudalism.
@@somebonehead who do you think owns Blackrock? Boomers.
@@someboneheadBlackRock and those other groups consistently cite the restrictions on new development as a reason to buy up the homes. They legally have to disclose that stuff to investors.
Keep it up Rob and yes, you’re one of the channels that have notifications enabled on my smartphone.
Rob, it has taken me 60 years to find you and now I am very happy to be a subscriber to your channel. Thank You!
Heck yeah man. Another great video. Glad to see you so active.
Your best one yet Rob, this one deserves an award
Thank you Rob for another great video! Always interesting and informative content, well done.
I just recently found your channel and I'm hooked. The quality of the information, the delivery and the editing is professional TV like. Please, keep them coming!
This was an awesome entertaining video. So much work put into this.
This is a very informative and interesting video. I am at a cross road in my life and desperately needed to know this history. thank you
I really enjoy your videos and appreciate the work you put in! Keep up the good work!
Great video! Really good production!
You are seriously underrated.
You’ve outdone yourself this time. Very good information and quality. And fourth phase: agreed.
As always Rob, you know your stuff! Thanks for covering the homestead Act and the part of Sherman
This is amazing content! Thank you
Extremely good video, you cover literally everything on this suburbanization topic and others.
Holy heck this is an incredible mini doc.
George Carlin used to say that it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.
yup
Sensational content Rob, I thoroughly enjoyed that!
Another fantastic video! Keep 'em coming!
This is the content I like to see!
One of the other components that isn't transportation related is the ability of real estate capital to travel around the world without very little impediment. Someone in south east Asia can easily buy investment properties in North America and vice versa without much problem (at least comparatively to earlier generations). I just found this channel and I hope you keep making more, its great content!
These videos are excellent. Thanks Rob.
LOVE your videos! So much research and work on each one and well presented. Subscribed.
Suburbs actually predate highways and automobiles. The first ones were based on rail transit.
Yeah, but they were few in number, and extremely expensive. Think Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs.
Probably not with a 55/45 ratio of garden - house.
@@Angel24Marin My point is that the problem is not suburbs per se, but rather the way we build suburbs.
@@davidbarts6144 I agree. We should have a mix of our car dependent suburbs with some walkable and transit oriented suburban neighborhoods.
Such a great video as always. Keep it up man
I just have to comment to say this video is so well made; thank you for making it. I was ignorant to a lot of these things, or at least I didn't make sense of it all the way you have. I took history classes in school but somehow I feel like this video was more useful to me than much of what I was taught. More people need to see this.
I wasn't a fan of work from home but perhaps it would help solve at least some of these ever growing problems.
Its better than ANYTHING I've seen on PBS! - Great Work!
Baloney! Most of America is empty space. It's time to reinvent, not outlaw the suburbs. When taxes, permits and fees go north of $125K per unit, not including the recently mandated solar installation on all new construction, it's no wonder people can't afford a home. As soon as government realizes that it's the problem, all discussion about affordable housing stops.
No, it's mostly NIMBY incumbent homeowners that collude to suppress the housing supply where it's actually wanted. It's fundamentally an excess demand issue; even China has a huge issue trying to get people away from the coasts into its _really_ empty western half, despite having none of the bureaucratic impediments. For California, the units still sell once up for sale despite all the markups, further inflated by often corporate ownership who controls the release of properties to ensure that low availability leads to high prices.
One of America's biggest competitive advantages is in a largely unspoiled environment, sometimes made official as a National Park or Forest, providing enormous amounts of lumber, tourism, green space, and biodiversity that can be readily studies and potentially exploited.
@@doujinflip You haven't addressed the affordability issue. I live in socal, anyone can build a house for $600K but very few people could afford it. Take the 125K I mentioned, add 30K for the mandated solar system you have 155K. Add 150K for the lot (that's cheap) and 125K to build a decent house, you arrive at $430K as a minimum.
@@doujinflip There are no NIMBYs left. They have all gone BANANAs. Not in my backyard has become “Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone.”
What a great channel to find! God bless you. Greetings from Brazil.
Man I love your videos! I hope you never stop and I know your going to grow.
This was amazing! I'm glad I found this channel. I hope he does a real deep dive into "2008 Market Crash". A commonly stated by somewhat deceitful statement that always comes up around that crisis is that "people took out home loans they couldn't afford" or "Banks loaned money to people they should not have" that narrative is largely incomplete and makes the situation seem less complicated than it really was, and sometimes that really messes up the points the nation should have taken away from it.
Love your vids, Rob, all the way from AUS! Keep it up. We got more or less the same problems with housing affordability because of the same reasons, especially in Sydney. It's awful
What’s the hooker situation like down there?
Your videos rank way up there Rob, are informative, fascinating, and are great storytelling; you deserve to have many more subscribers. They will come.
This channel is CRIMINALLY underrated, I really can’t stop watching
same; by making comments you help out his channel get boosted by the algorithm!
Love your videos Rob, keep it up!
Howdy Rob, my apology, but I didn’t know where else I could shoot you this suggestion. I would be greatly interested if you did a video exploring cycling more. I want alternative transportation to develop further and bring America out of its car craze its plagued with. Personally, I cycled 14 miles a day (both ways) to school growing up and continued cycling my first 3 years of adulthood to work (still about 7 miles one way). I did this in an urban Texas City and after my time on two wheels getting rained on and hit multiple times I can’t say that I recommend it, but I think a deep dive might really give people a more detailed perspective on the complexities of transit. Keep up the good work!
Austin D I second this. A video about sprawl in America would be great.
The point of Insurance/Tags/Insurance is to pay for road damage cars cause - bikes contribute nearly nothing to road damage. Having bikes adhere to the same laws is flawed because they are inherently different vehicles than motor vehicles of any kind as they accelerate differently - rules are about safety and having bikes adhere to the same rules will lead to increased traffic deaths. Anyway, more bikes are great for drivers, they can take up less than a lane, and relive several lanes of traffic.
@Kelly Penrod there is a reason why cyclist drive wide.
In Germany there is the rule to drive like 3-4 feet from the curb and to be overtaken with like 5 foot of distance to you.
And contrary to you belive, that it is easier to overtake 20 cyclists in a row, you would have to move a little to the left lane and overtake them over a long stretch. Now Imagine, there is a pothole. The cyclists will swerve. And they are in front of your car, but you're going to fast to stop now. And since you haven't fully moved over you have something to the left of you. And you have to do that 20 times.
Now Imagine the same thing but with 4 or 5 cyclists next to eachother.
You have to move one lane over. That slowes you down a little, but you would have to do that if you wanted to keep a safe distance to the cyclist anyway.
Now imagine the pothole, the formation of cyclists will somewhat squish, but stay in its lane. And sou only have to pass 4 or 5 rows of cyclists. Making the passing shorter.
But that is only whree Cars and Bikes mix.
If you have dedicated cycling paths those distances get lower, because speed difference is lower, and a car hitting a cyclist, ist rally bad news for the cyclist. For the car it is just a inconvinience.
nd cyclists have ro adhere to almost the same traffic laws in Germany.
There are some that are slightly different, there are some, which are only there for cars, and there are some that are only there for bikes.
Just look at the Netherlands.
They have more cyclists than any other Nation.
The cyclists don't have tags, thry don't have any special insurance, they have traffic laws for bikes.
The whole thing is financed through taxes.
Because infrastructure for cars is like 10 to 100 times more expensive, than for bikes.
As well as lasting longer and needing lesser maintenance.
And they don't have a problem with broken of mirrors, that hurts a cyclist, and i don't know a cyclist who would much rather destroy someones mirror, than to carry on driving unharmed.
Same with the scratches. That is a easy way to throw yourself of your bike and is something which is way less common, than you think.
@Kelly Penrod Yes i don't know every roadlaw from the USA. But that doesn't mean, that my Argument is just plain wrong.
Laws follow mostly the same principle everywhere.
The first law of roadtraffic in Germany is:
Don't behave in such a way, that you endanger others.
I guess, that the USA has something very similar.
That means:
Don't overtake to closely, don't drive too fast, etc.
That means:
If you overtake a cyclist inside your lane, then you more often than not endanger him, if there is no space to his right.
Meaning you can't feasibly overtake.
If you add in a group of which are all cycling behind eachother and a semi in the opposing traffic, then you are stuck between the cyclists and the truck. No space left, no space right.
But on the right, there is a human beeing wirhout a metric ton of metal protecting his flesh like you are in your car.
Cyclists take up a full lane for safety. Too often bikers get knocked down by cars who _thought_ they had enough clearance from a driver sitting on the far end of their vehicle. Plus the curbmost part of the road are usually full of drainage hazards and gravel kicked over from four-wheelers, any of which could make the cyclist spill over sideways with their head probably going right into the track of a passing car.
Then there's other policies that don't make sense for cycling, like full and complete stops due to the amount of effort required to get going again (it's not just a light tap of the gas) and despite having completely unobstructed visibility compared to inside a car. Or having to wait for a green light which would never trigger from insensitive signal sensors. Or mandating liability insurance for a vehicle that in a collision causes far less damage than the rider themselves.
Perhaps spend some time pedaling on public roads and you'll see how following your idea of "proper" road usage actually leaves you frustrated if not physically vulnerable, and you start bending the rules to something more rational.
Dude you make awesome videos, it feels like I’m watching a legit show. Subscribed!
I just want to say that this is an excellent video. I can't think of any way it could be better.
I think some people need to start rebuilding small town America towns but keep them somewhat small. Breathe life into places it’s needed but don’t go in to change the place, better it with the locals. Most live in these towns for the same reason as you would, to avoid other people. Anyways, self reliance, homesteading out in the hills, may not be a bad thing for people, go back to our roots, better survivalists and more knowledgeable on practical things, with space to grow.
SOAPBOX OF PEDANTRY: Las Vegas is sloppy, but so too are parts of Phoenix. The PLSS grid struggles to deal with the realities of being on a round earth, and not a Mercator projection. Therefore, the meridian lines sometimes have to jut and shift awkwardly to accommodate the (mostly) 36sqmi survey townships, lest they converge to nothingness at the higher latitudes. Imagine a U.S. survey township at the north pole!
Therefore the grids are far from perfect and road alignments need to be shifted to account for this. In the very screenshot you show representing Phoenix (showing Tempe/Chandler/Mesa, etc.) the street grid shifts abruptly when you go north/south of the appropriately named Baseline Road! It's noticeable as a gentle yet short bend to realign with the survey grid, which is about 1/8 mile misaligned south of Baseline Road. Arguably much better than the long, slanted mess of Vegas streets, but Phoenix has those as well - check out some of the heinous gridwork in the west valley!
Thanks for letting me be a pedantic prick!
Round Earth! What the hell kind of heresy is that?
Super informative. Well done.
great video, keep up the work
great video!!!
Always Great videos.
The reality of this situation is that NIMBYs don't care about poor or young people and the government needs to tell them to shove it otherwise nothing will change. Common sense zoning for higher density and better public transport would have prevented these problems and is the only way to solve them. Also its always more expensive to go back and try to fix something rather then build it right in the first place, so we have no choice but to massively overpay to fix it.
Very interesting 🧐 love your document 📃. Very informative.
what an awesome video! this channel is so much underrated! Subbed!! :D
Seriously underrated channel
Love your videos bigdog
We had a house in Phoenix and got calls 2 times a day for a year to sell it. Finally, we put it on the market and it sold in 24 hrs. Crazy.
This is a fantastic video and great explanation
Another thing worth mentioning for California specifically is Prop 13. The cap on absolute property tax increases distorts the housing market by (a) making it possible for residential landowners to benefit from land value appreciation, even if they make no improvements, without paying increased taxes, (b) makes them reluctant to sell because any new place they buy will have a tax rate matching the house’s current value, and (c) disadvantages new buyers for the same reason, since they have to pay more taxes than current owners.
Great Video!
Brilliant, perhaps even more informative than recent others publications and videos by others on the very same subject.
This is a really good video, keep it up, more like it
That channel is so underrated ! It took 1k sub in 1 day, i think you're booming. Some fucking g o o d quality content. Greets from France.
I love these news station style videos
I like how i recognize where you are filming and have only been to that region of california once.
Praise be!
To the almighty youtube algorithm which gave me another wholesome channel to subscribe to.
Greetings from Europe
Great vids !
love these videos
Great videos!!! 🙂
Dang bro, this channel blowin up right now.
Literally the Bill Nye of roads, he deserves all the views and subs in the world
Unexpected Thorough Historical Overview of US and Western US … Kudos RGR🙏
I bought a house in the recession for a great price. More then doubled in value now.
Sound like a Win to me!
That's because you had cash to spend in a recession. Most people didn't, or were forced to live on their savings when they lost their jobs.
@@mirzaahmed6589 As always, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
An interesting video. Leaving my comment for the youtube algorithm.
Awesome job!
Yes, NIMBYism is why in-filling isn't helping much. However, there are no neighbors to object to development if they could only find a way to breach the Green Belt for green-field developments. The goal of modern urban development should be to push jobs and housing to these new areas so the workers of those jobs can find affordable housing right near the jobs, this produces short commutes and less road utilization.
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I almost screamed when I saw it!!! In reality, Evergreen operates probably 150 or so vessels, so it seems unlikely that this is the Ever Given.
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I love the lead-in at 14:52, made me lol.