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Originally Posted by SIGSEGV
The problem for NYC (and SF and Boston) is that they're super expensive, so if you just want to live in ANY city, they wouldn't be the top choice.
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Yeah, that may have a limited benefit to a lower cost city. If I were remote and just wanted to be in a walkable city, I'd probably choose Philadelphia or Chicago, assuming I was still receiving a NYC or Bay Area salary.
But, I think the number of workers that will be permanently untethered from their desks in SF or NYC is being vastly overestimated. And even if they all were, it wouldn't really make a difference to any single city if those workers fanned out across the country indiscriminately. If every single high-income person drained out of NYC and spread out evenly to the other top 10 metros, it would barely register in those other metros.