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It's still a choice being made. People choose to live where they live. They could choose to live elsewhere.

You should be allowed to complain about the choices available before you, even if you have an ordinal preference for one over the other

Ok.

What is the best alternative to that choice? You can’t answer since you aren’t the one in that position.

Frequently it is the least bad among a bunch of choices.

Choosing to go into crippling debt to pay cancer treatment bills is a choice too, but only a moron thinks the blame should be laid at the feet of the patient for making that “choice”.

Because moving cities is free and frictionless, because everyone works remote, and their cushy corporate job will pay moving fees. Right?

I said it's a choice. At the end of the day people choose to live in these areas. Yes, it might be because the tradeoffs of not living there or moving away are severe and outweigh the headaches of an HOA, but it's still a choice they make.

If you want to buy swiss cheese and you have 17 supermarkets within convenient distance and none of them sell swiss cheese, you don't really have any options at all, despite the fake appearance of plentiful consumer choice.

Free markets (and the associated "invisible hand") only work when choice is truly available, not purely theoretical.

Why do you choose not to be immortal?

Yeah sure man I could also choose not to have a job

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