This discussion is interesting because I feel like every city is being impacted in different ways and magnitudes.
NYC is struggling for their own unique reasons (sky high rent leading to slim margins, complete dependency on transit, etc). Chicago just had a huge hit with looting that was unique to Chicago this past week. LA had their own issues, and has a very high COL like NYC.
I won't compare Denver to NYC/CHI/LA since we are in a different class, but I can compare us to Minneapolis/Seattle/Portland. In that category, the differences might be even greater. Minneapolis seems to have calmed down since the initial madness with George Floyd, but there's bigger pushes there to "defund the police". Seattle had CHAZ/CHOP which was a complete disaster. Portland has had massive issues with over the summer. Here in Denver though, things haven't been as crazy. We had protests, some looting right after George Floyd, but not to the national level as other cities. From my personal observations, local restaurants/shops are getting through this with folks eating outside, wearing masks, etc. Also, we are very much not on board with getting rid of the police as one of our local city council people just found out:
https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...3-b50aa909d81f
For us, this may mean we come out of this looking good to potential younger folks that want to move to a larger city. I won't hold my breath though since it's 2020 and you never know what next black swan will rear its ugly head in your hood......