> Source? a priori. lsy is constructing a model. The foundation of the model is equilibrium. They're going out of their way to highlight the things that are ou

> Source? a priori. lsy is constructing a model. The foundation of the model is equilibrium. They're going out of their way to highlight the things that are out of equilibrium to explain why people might move for other than random reasons. Imagine a world with only two cities easterland and westerville. If crime, safety, amenities, economy is the same, people are going to bounce around for random reasons. maybe bobby got into westerville state. mabye sue wants to be closer to his family. by the law of large numbers, those random fluctuations are going to balance out. There is no threat of godzilla attacking esterland, thus causing mass exodus to westerland. > Again: Source? if you accept equilibrium, then clearly things can go out of balance in two ways. Demand going up, or demand going down. lsy isn't trying to explain all cases, lsy is explaining the demand going up case. > Your generalization doesn't work for all cases. Yes, but all cases is not the issue at hand. The issue at hand is what happens when demand goes up. You have my sympathies that your neighborhoods are turning into ghost towns. It seems like you have a different problem that's clouding your thinking about the demand going up case, because they're related, but different.