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One solution is to revitalize second- and third-tier urban centers. Places like Nashville (already hot), Tampa, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Perhaps even Lincol
by nugget 10y ago
One solution is to revitalize second- and third-tier urban centers. Places like Nashville (already hot), Tampa, Detroit, and Indianapolis. Perhaps even Lincoln, Nebraska, and Birmingham, Alabama. Not everyone can live in Manhattan itself but the density, services, and lifestyle millennials want can be recreated elsewhere where land costs are practically zero. An art scene, a food scene, some condo loft conversions and trendy commercial space; it's a sort of county-level cultural CRISPR process. Smart entrepreneurs are already hard at work on this but it's an effort in which I think Government could provide massively effective incentives to accelerate the outcome.
- riprowan 10y agoYou've hit the nail on the head. The trick is to discover and curate small city life so that one can live in a small city without feeling like one went back in time. Then you get to have your cake and eat it too.
- pc86 10y agoWe live in a very small city (metro pop 500-600k so maybe 1/4 the size of Nashville and 1/2 the size of Birmingham), and when my wife and I were dating we lived in an apartment downtown. It was great! Only two things made us move. 1. We wanted a big dog, and that's a non-starter for 90% of apartments. 2. Property taxes were 3-4x what they were just a mile or two outside of the city center.