Kyla Scanlon

It's really a tricky ledge to walk, but you have to make sure I think that you're open, not to be like too prescriptive, but I think you have to be open and you have to make sure you're approaching people with kindness because the world needs a little bit more of that.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

Great to see you.

I mean, I think it's a fair question, and it's one that is a lot harder to decide than I think people give it credit for.

So for me, like, I grew up in Kentucky and ended up moving to L.A.

immediately after I graduated in 2019.

So I chose the big city career, but then the pandemic hit.

And so I think that's one part of it, is that...

You don't know what's going to happen.

And so I think here you have to optimize for what you want.

Like if you want to buy a house right away, it's not the smart thing to move immediately to a big city.

It's just not going to happen unless you have generational wealth.

And I think the American dream has evolved really substantially for everybody because we consider buying a house the American dream, but it's gotten very expensive everywhere.

So even though this question says, like, should I stay in my small town and buy a house?

Like, those homes are still quite expensive too.

And there's something called Baumol's cost disease.

Have you heard about this?

Have you heard of Baumol's cost disease, Ed?

So I think it gives a lot of...

support to what this person is asking, where we've gotten really productive as a country over the past several decades.