More on that housing shortage

A shortage causes high prices. If there are high prices particularly for dreary, used items, there is a shortage. Here's a renovated - means old - apartment in a town outside of Jerusalem. That means a one hour commute to work. 

So that's a four bedroom apartment for, drum roll please ......

3,600,000 Israeli New Shekels = 1,112,639 US Dollars!

Here's what you get for 1.2 million dollars:

Your kitchen. Isn't that just lovely?

Dining room or let's call it a dining area. Note that's a mirror on the right. It's not another room. See the adjacent kitchen on the left?

Bedroom is all bed.

Bedroom 2. How many kids are you going to fit in there?

Here's your den. It's really the marpeset/balcony with a couch since there is no den in this million dollar dwelling.

This will cost you $1.1 million dollars!!!! For a frum family of 6 or 7, it's barely livable. Where do the children play? Where do they study? I know a young man whose room is too small for a desk so he winds up reading novels in bed rather than studying Torah. I can only imagine the condition of the other two bedrooms that they don't show you.

Let's say you have $1.1 million to spend, for surely you aren't going to earn it here. Where will your children live when they get married? If this is what you get for $1.1 million, what will they get for the $50,000 that maybe they can scrape together. The new draft law won't even allow yeshiva men to work until they are 23. They will live in a slum as many people do. I go into the homes of some of the people I know and feel as though I am a social worker checking in on impoverished families. 

The aliyah nutjobs, and that's what they are, tell you the future is in Israel. What future is there for your children in a country that doesn't offer housing? Food, shelter, and clothing. Those are the big 3 necessities in life. We are now decades into the so-called economic boom of Israel. But this is the state of the housing. The government does nothing about it. They are too busy trying to draft Haredim and trying to stamp out the antisemitism that they imagine to be under every rock. 

The aliyah nutjobs, and that is what they are, tell you that people in Chutz are materialistic. Tell me, who is more materialistic, the person living in a $1.2 million home or the one living in a $200,000 home in say Oak Park, Michigan, even though the home in Michigan is far nicer?

And for the answer go by the money spent. If you are willing (and able) to pay out 1.2 million dollars for some lunatic fantasy of yours, that's your materialism. It's the same with people who choose to live in a small million dollar homes in Los Angeles because it's the place where fashionable people live. Self-indulgence takes many forms. If you have expensive fantasies, that's your materialism. 

This madness called aliyatism has reached such epic proportions that people are shelling out millions of dollars to live like what's shown in this photo. But rich people tend to live in fantasy since they are spoiled. They can do that if they want -- I suppose even though they are ruining their children-- but when they lie to other Jews, when they pressure them and make them feel that they are subpar Jews because they don't want to destroy their lives and those of their chidlren to join in on the fantasy, that's rishus. 

And that's what aliyah pushers are, reshaim, evil doers, even the ones who know their way around shas. And you know who I am talking about.