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Originally Posted by the urban politician
To the contrary, I think the suburbs are highly desirable right now.
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Some of the amenities that make city living attractive are diminished for the next few months. So if someone is doing a cost/value proposition and is sitting on the edge, suburbs are more likely *right now* to come out ahead. But even then it's hard to see suburbs as "highly desirable." The value proposition in the short term is
less unfavorable than it was last year.
Just because suburbs are cheap doesn't make them "desirable." If people don't need to be in cities, then they don't need to be in the suburbs either. I'd rather do email on a deck overlooking a lake than next to poorly constructed single family homes and the occasional dreary commercial strips and large commercial buildings on streets without sidewalks that have been retrofitted to maximize auto throughput and parking.