And you will be competing for resources and attention with all the politely racist elderly that lived in that place since forever. Does not sound like a retirement plan for me.
I think it is all about location. East German concrete slab highrisers[0] are being renovated into fashionable lofts, despite their unfashionable image and continuous deterioration - where they are placed in the city centers that is.
It is a negotiating problem, and I think that that is an issue (be it gender-related or not). It rewards competitive thinking over cooperative thinking - people who'd rather work in a fair and equal environment are more likely to accept the same salary they perceive others will get - i.e. usually the proposed salary. Competitive minds have less qualms about claiming higher rewards.
Mechanisms like publishing salaries allows for a fairer salary whether you are cooperative or competitive. If you earn more, you probably can justify it in front of colleagues and bosses.
Some say cooperation over competition is a 'female' trait, but personally, I feel the same. I am successful at negotiation, but I'd rather know that my colleagues earn the same when they work the same, which is why I try to encourage talk about salaries.
The board is pushing against the ground (and the load!). If you adjust that force depending on the tilt of the board, you can move it (up to a certain point) to stay under the load.
As others have pointed out, it depends a bit on how much lateral force you can achieve through tilting and reaction forces, but if you can balance a quadcopter, you can balance a hoverboard. It gets a lot easier if your load is attached to the platform.
It is perfectly possible to stand on it if it is powered. The same you can stand on a Segway: As long as it moves itself under your center of gravity when tilting. That would then also be the steering.
See, there is an air intake in your mouth - and trying to talk under water does not exactly result in the noises you expect when you're talking into air.
The sign used by divers to alert others is banging your knife against the air tank. There are actual hand signs for 'I'm in trouble' or 'I'm out of air'.
Who do these experts report to? The individual parlamentarian (who is supposed to be independent), or the individual parties, or the governing coalition, or unknown third parties?
Living space and roads are severely limited resources, but in most cases the proximity to resources is more important. That's why people move into cities, not just because of jobs. Think hospitals, shopping, culture, friends, child care, inspiration, work, face-to-face interaction, play, love.
Unless you find a cost-efficient way to decentralize all of this, people will be attracted to each other.
I doubt that there is any clause in your work contract that prevents you from using knowledge gained from the competition. There usually are clauses against carrying knowledge out of the company, but not the other way around.
No. Tax information is public in anonymized form. That is different from wages, and the effect is absolutely not the same as if you knew exactly what your peers are making.
I'm trying to encourage talking wages at work, and have gotten my division to disclose theirs, but there's a lot of "oh, but it could lead to discontentment" in the rest of the company. And if you know Norwegians, being mildly at unease is the worst thing that can happen.