A couple of tweets showing the spectacular state of American cities today…
Someone needs a tazin’…
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1610427328823455745
And New York City? Don’t go there.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1610367040249790464
Here’s a fun related article:
Remote Work Is Poised to Devastate America’s Cities
People no longer *need* to live in big cities quite as much as they used to. The pandemic helped this process along by forcing people to work from home; and once people – and businesses – realized that people could work from *anywhere* and not have to deal with commutes and the nightmare that is the urban area, a lot of people *wanted* to bail out of big cities. Turns out Poop Central, AKA San Francisco, is seeing a *lot* of empty offices as people pull the D-rings and flee that rathole.
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Another consequence is that the people who flee sometimes bring their philosophy with them, shifting the politics of their new homes.
Examples include Boise and several places in Texas.
Its also driven up housing prices or at least contributed to their rise in certain high demand places again like Idaho. Five years ago you could save money by living on the ID side of the border (near Spokane) Now you pay more just to get out of the insane asylum that is Washington.