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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
^^^ If this scenario comes about, it's likely the vast majority of Chicago itself will have been redeveloped. At some point grabbing and turning around inner ring suburbs might make sense for a city with SF or NYC like affordability issues. This probably won't take 10-20 years like I said, but probably within our lifetimes. You and I will be old men, but it's the reversion to the mean. Innercities are NEVER cheaper than surrounding areas anywhere else on earth or at any other time in human history. At some point things will revert back to normal in the US and the central core will be expensive, followed by a ring of impoverished suburbs, followed by wealth country villa types further out. That's how Paris is, that's how London is, that's how ancient Rome was, that's literally how it works. The only exception was post war America where you had the tail end of the most radical technological transformation in history combined with a economic juggernaut that had just murdered everyone on earth that disagreed with them save for the Soviet Union. That's where our unique donut hole of land values came from and it's simply not going to be sustainable as the US reverts back to a less dominant multipolar world.
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this is a libertarian fever dream
the midwestern suburbs are not europe, not of this is applicable