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Originally Posted by Acajack
Not everyone who lives in the city lives there "by choice" and not everyone who lives in the suburbs lives there "by choice". Far from it.
There is a whole slew of factors that influence where we live.
The real question is if and how this pandemic will for a lot of people tilt these factors away from the city and towards suburbia, exurbia and beyond.
I think it's obvious that there is a "tilt" going on. What kind of legs it has remains to be seen.
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I think that anyone who lives in the city but can afford a mortgage on a house in the suburbs already had the luxury of choice.
Let's play this out. Let's say that being close to work is keeping a lot of people in NYC that would otherwise not live in NYC, and let's say that those people are suddenly enabled to work remotely from a place of their choosing. Why would they choose an expensive NY suburb over leaving the area altogether? Why not get a mansion in suburban Cleveland, in a great school district, for the same price as a Brooklyn studio apartment? Why not get a McMansion outside of Atlanta, or Charlotte, or Austin, or Dallas, for what you'd pay for a modest house in northern New Jersey?