It also kind of begs the question of "which cities?"
I mean hi, I'm currently living in a city that is still hanging out at about half of its peak population. And it's coming back, and doing okay - but there's a huge amount of porosity where other cities have density, and razing blighted old homes, and turning them into urban farms and other craziness. Also, our incredible diversity of wildlife. We still have a lot of cool old buildings in decent thought needing to be rehabbed sort of shape, and the cost of living is cheap, and because of all the old endowments from when this place was wealthy, there's a crazy arts scene.
...I have deeply mixed feelings, because while it makes me happy to see this place coming to life, and to know that this is becoming a place where young crazy folks can afford to do interesting things, culturally, I'm much more comfortable out west. Or in coastal cities. Still, I think it's easy and deeply myopic to think too much about places that are already crazy expensive.
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I mean hi, I'm currently living in a city that is still hanging out at about half of its peak population. And it's coming back, and doing okay - but there's a huge amount of porosity where other cities have density, and razing blighted old homes, and turning them into urban farms and other craziness. Also, our incredible diversity of wildlife. We still have a lot of cool old buildings in decent thought needing to be rehabbed sort of shape, and the cost of living is cheap, and because of all the old endowments from when this place was wealthy, there's a crazy arts scene.
...I have deeply mixed feelings, because while it makes me happy to see this place coming to life, and to know that this is becoming a place where young crazy folks can afford to do interesting things, culturally, I'm much more comfortable out west. Or in coastal cities. Still, I think it's easy and deeply myopic to think too much about places that are already crazy expensive.