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I heard the podcast where you talked about the prank war being faked.

I'd be curious to hear the story behind this - any chance you remember the episode?

Those methods are effective at making scalping a pain, but they also make it a pain for regular customers too. People who don't have a credit card and normally use their parents, or people who want to buy tickets as a gift. Or even just people who buy tickets and find out they can't make it and sell tickets at face value or give them to friends, etc.

You wouldn't want to move somewhere only because of the price, obviously that's a recipe for disaster. But it is equally problematic to stay somewhere regardless of the cost.

The reality is that cost should be one of several important factors in choosing a city. Don't move somewhere you'll be miserable because of cost reasons, but don't stay somewhere you can't afford due to stubbornness.