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Originally Posted by the urban politician
What you continue to fail to take into account is the permanent move to “work from home” status.
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There's no such thing. I don't know any major company planning permanent WFH. Even tech companies are signing massive long-term leases. Trophy office towers have sold for peak pricing during the pandemic.
Everyone I know cannot wait till normalcy. WFH post-pandemic will be about greater family-work flexibility, not ending office space.
But putting all this aside, How does "work from home" disadvantage cities? No one has explained this. What's the rationale for preferring McMansions over brownstones, or Applebees over bistros, or lawns over playgrounds, if they WFH?
And most U.S. metros have most of their jobs in sprawl, not cities. So why would city dwellers be disadvantaged if they no longer had to schlep to some random office park?
People want to live in cities. No one is living in a city vs. a suburb because they want to work in an office.