re: Daily Mail: "We're just too clever to find a boyfriend!"

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Andrea looks like she could suck the chrome off a lead pipe. She has that "I sit alone at the bar drinking whiskey" look. 

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TheEnglishman

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These are the kind of women usually from New Orleans you'll see on Tinder or Bumble. Profiles usually read the same: Prominently display their Myers-Briggs test result they got online, not looking for commitment but not looking for a hookup, and will say they're not into politics but if you voted for Trump you should swipe left.

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yeah reminds me of my liberal friends who move to big cities and want to talk to me about the plight of the poor while also criticizing me for acting counter to their perception of elite behavior...a way of living that...allows me to actually interact with poor people

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Philip Auerswald: Well, I mean--so, the richest cities in the United States make 34% more in terms of regional GDP [Gross Domestic Product] than America as a whole. The urbanites earn 30% more than rural residents. And, what's--you know--

Russ Roberts: That's on average.

Philip Auerswald: That's on average. Yeah. And then, just between 2010 and 2014, this has drawn--this particular summary is drawn from an Economist article, but Glaeser has a number of articles along the same lines, there are multiple sources. But, between 2010 and 2014, U.S. population grew by 3.1%; cities overall by 3.7%. But the 50 richest cities grew by 9.2%. Now, we haven't gotten to mobility. And that's part of the frustration of people in rural places, I would conjecture: Is that, as we all know, land values and home prices in those 50 largest major metros have gone up in the last 20, 30 years just to a dramatic extent. And again, this is a global phenomenon. You had Matt Rognlie's paper a couple of years ago sort of revisiting Piketty's results and finding that the sort of famed increased capital share relative to labor over the last 30 years was almost entirely accounted for by growth in real estate. So, this is nontrivial. On a macro scale, it's really the underlying determinant--again, if we believe that those numbers, you know, from Piketty, as I think analyzed very insightfully by Matt Rognlie, that, that, these really are the core drivers of inequality. And, also the core drivers of our restricted mobility. I mean, you simply, you cannot go to Midtown, to New York, even Brooklyn to live the dream of making it in New York, any way like my father did when he came from Northern Wisconsin to Columbia University in the 1950s. Or my mother, you know, differently coming from Tunisia[?] to New York City. I mean, this was an exceptional place where people like my mother and father could meet. And they could afford to be there as young people with really zero means from their family to sustain them otherwise. So, we are in a totally different world in terms of mobility. And, and, the divisions between the richest cities and the rest of the world are becoming increasingly acute. And those of us--and I readily confess includes me--spend almost all of their time in one of the world's, say, largest hundred cities. It's easy for us to be oblivious to these phenomena.

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Even "poor" people in big cities don't know what poor actually is. They'd be shocked driving through rural Mississippi.

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