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Originally Posted by thegoatman
urbanist twitter loves chicago. it's the american flag/blue lives matter flag/let's go brandon folks that hate chicago.
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In this particular instance, urbanist twitter from other cities were projecting their issues onto Chicago, more so than hating it.
Philadelphia urbanist twitter was discussing their pandemic and WFH troubles which are indeed very serious. Philadelphia currently has high unemployment, has lost a good portion of job-holding residents, and relies on employment taxes to meet the city budget.
Then they latched onto a suburban Chicago guy’s tweets complaining about Metra and the Loop that had some serious exaggeration.
Loop retail struggles and office vacancies don’t quite compare to Philadelphia’s current upheaval. Yeah, it’s a serious issue that the Loop will have to muddle through for the next few years, but the neighborhoods are doing well and picking up the slack, and it’s a good time to be a city that relies on property taxes and not on employment/wage taxes.