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Originally Posted by ORD2010
Now I don't know all the information on this topic so please correct me if I am wrong, most of this is my own observation as a single man in his late 20's.
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^ No offense, you seem very nice and genuine, but therein kinda lies the problem. We hear these perspectives from "late 20s" or "30 something" whipper snappers all day every day and it's the same clueless perspective. I know that most of that demographic is ignorant about running a business. I was one once.
Many have their neat little software-tech-whatever consulting job which somehow is now happening from home, and pay rent, and all is well. Never fear, the "educated bright elite are all still coming to the city in droves" and everybody who complains, well, "don't let the door hit you on the way out" as you go to backwards Trumpist Florida.
It's the old and tired routine, but it's completely off. It's not telling anything close to the complexity of the real story.
I'm not saying that I have the answers, but post-COVID Chicago needs a new formula. Because at least for some proportion of the population, work from home is here to stay--and "work from home" can mean suburbs, or maybe it can mean Missouri.
These small businesses are mostly owned by people who aren't 33 years old, they are older and more cynical, but that doesn't make them all 'mean Trumpist assholes' or whatever they are falsely being characterized as. They are a huge part of Chicago's tax base that are not as mobile as the "work from home" types who can do their job from anywhere. This year has been enormously painful for them, perhaps destructive, and they deserve better than some asshole with the whole "enjoy Florida, you won't be missed!" nonsense.