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Originally Posted by Crawford
Hell, no. I wouldn't have the same lifestyle in Chicago or Boston. No way would I move to Tulsa or Corpus Christi, expecting the same lifestyle.
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Those places aren't what I had in mind. I was thinking more like Munich or Copenhagen or something. Stockholm before it got "overpressurized" somehow and turned expensive. Excellent, important cities, but kind of squat except for a few awkward 1970s high rises in the suburbs.
edit: also ironically I think Tulsa and Corpus Christi are actually good examples of small backwater cities that ended up with oversized high-rise downtowns with lots of empty buildings and former city blocks ravaged by parking lots. Both had unsustainable oil booms(Tulsa in the 20s and Corpus in the 70s). A disturbing vision of the fate of other places which overbuild and then empty out.
The early 2000's to present trend around the world where large amounts of money are going into build giant blue glass supertall residential condos and office complexes that look like sci-fi arcologies while rent in hovels is $2,500 a month for a broom closet just seems unsustainable to me when technically a large proportion of people who live and work in these cities don't actually have to be there at all. London was a powerhouse and center of western civilization for a long time but it only sprouted giant towers somewhat recently and that trend honestly comes off as a symptom of something very economically unhealthy. Why during a period in which governments have cut interests to nothing are the super-rich spending on their money on buildings nobody lives in? Something is wrong, it can't last. The third world and China is building stuff that's even taller but what's the point of these huge buildings except to show off?
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Originally Posted by iheartthed
A common theme over the past two months is that the pandemic has accelerated trends that were already in progress. If that holds true, then suburban office parks will likely become the biggest loser from the pandemic.
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I agree.
It's going to be like how retail is dying, but the top end in "destinations" is doing okay.