You seem determined to feel attacked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

- give companies less power over h-1b holders. Make it last six months or a year after the date they get fired, so they are not so tied down. Don’t make it indentured servitude.

And yes, I’m human?

Strange comment internet stranger.

I live in a neighborhood of single family homes that are on big lots and spaced out (perhaps 20-30 meters between homes). There is no community trash bins. There also is very little foot traffic, aside from people who live in the neighborhood. In more urban areas, there would be public trash cans.

Where I live (Texas), there is no state income tax. They make it up by having high property taxes. It's something like $20,000/year per $1MM of property value. $515.50 would be so nice...

> What does this cover - garbage collection, what else?

Here, none of that (Garbage is billed by use as a utility, like electricity. You're charged by how big of a bin you get).

It funds all the things the state and local government does - schools, roads, parks, police, fire, social services, anything tax would normally fund.

Maybe in a condo or something where you don't own the walls, but they are community property? But for single residence, the HoA is usually just a "mow your grass buddy!" nag machine.

When you're 20 something and you can pack your 1 bedroom apartment worth of Ikea furniture into the smallest U-Haul, or just sell it on Craig's list and start over at the next place, renting is awesome.

When you have a house full of crap you've collected over 20 years and live somewhere you carefully picked for your kids to have a good school, the whole equation flips and you're willing to accept the downsides the author calls out, to give your family stability.