[the urban politician]

Originally Posted by JMKeynes

I agree. Remote working may be a problem for typical U.S. cities like Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, etc., but it is not an issue for NY, where financial services firms (and others) are lining up for new space,

Sounds like a bunch of wishful thinking.

And your odd delusion that somehow New York will return to in-person work while all of those "other" cities will suffer from work-from-home just reeks of either hometown boosterism or utter denial.

As I expected in my first post of this thread, the denial around here is almost comical. You guys have no idea just how much cities that have spent over a century dependent on bringing hundreds of thousands/millions of people downtown every weekday are fucked right now

If anything, "typical" cities as you call them (of which Chicago is very much NOT because it also depends on a huge downtown workforce) are ones that do not depend so strongly on a centralized workforce. I actually think that they are in a better position